Designing and Building a Hybrid Cloud

Chapter 1. Is It Time to Embrace Hybrid Cloud?

Enterprises are turning to hybrid cloud to modernize IT for the digital era. But, given the significant complexity that still exists today in cross-cloud management and integration, many enterprises are struggling to create an effective hybrid cloud strategy.

What This Report Covers

This report recommends a three-step approach that will help you build a more functional and more mature hybrid cloud environment:

• Choose a single framework—a “cloud operating system”—to manage workloads on-premises and in the cloud

• Modernize datacenters and other on-premises infrastructure to utilize that framework

• Choose public clouds and cloud service providers compatible with the same framework

This approach will provide a higher level of automation, visibility, and consistency across all environments, private and public, ensuring your enterprise operates at the highest level and achieves the benefits of hybrid cloud.

Designed for IT leaders and business decision makers, this report will help you assess, plan, and implement this hybrid cloud strategy to achieve greater control over all IT services, regardless of where they are running.

The Cloud Is Reshaping Enterprise IT

Over the last 10 years, the increasing capabilities of the public cloud have dramatically reshaped the enterprise IT landscape. Many enterprises initially announced they were adopting a “cloud-first” strategy or that they were “all in” on the public cloud. That early euphoria ...