With the fast-growing popularity of cloud computing, an increasing number of organizations are now moving towards cloud-based solutions. Gartner predicts that1, “by 2020, 90 percent of organizations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management” where some parts of a solution would be in the cloud while other parts would be in traditional on-premises data centers.

With the move towards the digital enterprise where more and more data is exposed via APIs, organizations heavily depend on API management platforms to ease the burden of managing these APIs. Now API management is also moving towards hybrid approaches where some parts of the platform are cloud-based and the rest is based on on-premises data centers. This paper intends to explain why and when you would need a hybrid API management solution.