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FIVE STRATEGIC
CONSIDERATIONS FOR
HYBRID CLOUD SUCCESS
PRESENTED BY
usinesses today are
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moving to the cloud at
unprecedented speeds.
Nine out of 10 companies
will have some part of their applications
or infrastructure in the cloud by 2019,
and the rest expect to follow by 2021,
according to IDG’s 2018 cloud computing
research. But moving to the cloud is
not an all-or-nothing strategy. In fact,
most organizations – especially those
with legacy on-premises applications
– will settle on a hybrid cloud strategy,
deploying applications, data, and
infrastructure on a combination of onpremise
and cloud resources.
Hybrid cloud brings substantial
advantages in terms of rapid deployment
and reduced infrastructure costs, but
it also comes with a new set of data
management challenges. As cloud
environments multiply, new cloud data
silos appear, some of which bypass IT
altogether. Securing and governing data
that lives across multiple clouds, each
with their own architectures, is difficult.
And cloud vendor lock-in can make it
tough to migrate or export data.
Often, the result is that your cloud
strategy, or lack thereof, severely
challenges your ability to manage,
access, secure, and derive quick
insights from your data. And with 95% of
C-level executives saying data is integral
to their business strategy, now is the
time to ensure your data strategy drives
your hybrid cloud strategy, not the other
way around. u
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