first published week of: 03/21/2016
Recent reports have suggested that major organizations are making use of hybrid clouds to gain a competitive edge, with one study finding two-thirds of surveyed organizations employing hybrid clouds noting competitive advantages due directly to their hybrid environments. With today’s hybrid environments including physical and cloud data centers, legacy systems, open source and licensed applications and infrastructure components, and a variety of cloud-based services, the hybrid cloud environment holds both opportunity and challenge.
Finding the right hybrid provider, however, is only the very start of this journey, while employing suitable monitoring processes can ensure the successful management of an organization’s hybrid cloud. Savision’s research, The Challenges of Managing IT in a Hybrid Cloud World analyzes the different forces driving adoption and deployment of hybrid cloud architectures, and suggests strategies for overcoming IT management challenges herein. continued…