For most organizations, the move to hybrid cloud is now a question of when,
not if. Fully 82% of enterprises plan to have a hybrid cloud strategy this
year, according to Infoholic Research. The worldwide hybrid cloud computing
market is expected to grow about 34% annually over the next five years,
reaching $241.13 billion by 2022.
Companies are embracing hybrid cloud because of the many advantages it
offers compared to relying on a single provider for all of their cloud needs.
Hybrid offers balance and flexibility. It helps companies achieve a wide
array of business goals, including availability, reliability, security and
cost-efficiency.
Still, there are a number of challenges associated with hybrid cloud. Here
are four management issues that companies need to address to enjoy a
successful hybrid cloud implementation.
Managing complexity.
More clouds can sometimes... (more)
Clear Skies Ahead: How a Multi-Cloud Strategy Can Benefit Your Business
As more organizations move to the public cloud, they face an important
decision: Should they use just one cloud provider, such as Amazon Web
Services (AWS), or should they adopt a multi-cloud strategy, one that makes
use of multiple cloud providers?
There are several major cloud platform providers, including AWS, Microsoft
Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The advantage of a multi-cloud strategy is
that organizations can reap significant benefits by using the best of
different platforms, rather than relying on... (more)
Todd Matters is co-founder and chief architect at RackWare. A serial entrepreneur with in excess of 10 patents to his name, he previously served as senior director of engineering at QLogic (acquired by Intel in 2012) with responsibility for the InfiniBand and Fibre Channel products, as well as management software for a very large, high-speed fabric networks.
Brendan Harding
