The New Hybrid Cloud for IT | Computerworld

June 5, 2019 | Hybrid Cloud, CIO Corner, Cloud Computing, Technology, Workplace

Hybrid cloud is having an undeniably positive impact on IT’s ability to deliver performance to the business.

This whitepaper by HPE on Computerworld further states “Now it’s time for organizations to use hybrid cloud resources to improve IT services delivery.”

While IT is a key element in successful operations of organizations in the digital world, business objectives drive more investments in new projects and initiatives.

According to IDC’s Cloud View Survey, the majority of IT’s most important initiatives are oriented toward business, not IT. However, IT strategies are an integral part of all initiatives, whether they are focused on IT or business objectives.  Enablement of hybrid cloud is not limited to the IT side of organizations but rather becomes a part of the broader cloud experience spreading across multiple functions within the organization.

Business and IT needs are defined by a myriad of factors including but not limited to its specialization and business model, mix of workloads, financial health, maturity, composition of the workforce, and profile of customer base.  These needs shape an organization’s choice when it comes to electing where to run its workloads and defining a right combination of on-premises and off-premises resources.

What should be common for all organizations choosing the cloud path is the fact that private cloud remains a central point of a hybrid strategy, in either a data center or hosted environment.  The article further emphasizes how hybrid cloud reflects an approach to workload design, deployment, and delivery that allows organizations to get more effective use out of their compute and data assets, as well as the open source ecosystems available for cloud-native development.

To fully utilize the potential of a hybrid cloud strategy, organizations need to adopt a hybrid cloud platform that incorporates support for existing and emerging operating environments and enables seamless connections of resources across multiple cloud types.

Today, many cloud service and IT solution providers, including CIYIS, are building and delivering a new set of hybrid cloud services and solutions that help organizations deliver a flexible and open cloud experience at the speed businesses demand.  Hybrid cloud solutions also take advantage of advanced multi-cloud management software and services to maintain visibility, control, and compliance across all clouds and for all hybrid workloads.

In most instances with our clients, there is a need to incorporate emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, Quantum Computing and Machine Learning but not at the risk of disrupting current operations.  Hybrid cloud becomes the go-to strategy for those situations and most effectively gets your organization the quick win to build buy-in and investment from the C-Suite.

Nevertheless, according to the whitepaper, there are three characteristics at the heart of the hybrid cloud models today:

1. Software defined, workload optimized, and composable.
2. Open and hybrid by design.
3. Easily Consumable.

The full whitepaper and article by HPE is below.

Source: The New Hybrid Cloud for IT | Computerworld

This entry was posted in Hybrid Cloud, CIO Corner, Cloud Computing, Technology, Workplace on June 5, 2019 by Christian Sellu.