siliconindia | | July 20198hile enterprises use five public and private clouds on an average in today's multi-cloud reality, only few are getting the full value of the cloud, as many companies lack a transformational strategy. Accel-erating in a multi-cloud world requires a fundamental transformation that spans across the enterprise, enables cross-functional col-laboration and frees-up organizational, technological and financial resources to help companies improve business outcomes and invest in innovation. I person-ally believe that the future is truly hybrid, and every customer I talk to is in some form of a hybrid model. The Opportunities of a Multi-cloud EnvironmentA Hybrid Cloud environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and public cloud services, provides unprecedented choice in where to run applications, and where to store data. Every day, companies are choosing between major public cloud providers, on-premises private clouds, dedicated hardware stacks, or even decide not to own the application at all and purchase the functionality from a SaaS provider. This choice provides them the ability to optimize IT like never before, by being able to strategically source services from multiple providers based on considerations such as business objectives, security needs and application architecture requirements. However, the difficulty in making the right choice and the challenge of managing the resulting complexity is leading many firms to make decisions that end-up with suboptimal results or even failed transformations. To successfully achieve business outcomes with Hybrid Cloud, companies need to think holistically across their entire IT estate to make the right mix of IT supply decisions for the business. They need to understand the options they have in the IT supply chain, evaluate where workloads should run, and help them automate the migration & portability of these workloads. Given the incredible acceleration in IT we've seen in recent years, initiatives to add public cloud to the infrastructure mix have in many cases been somewhat ad hoc. To accelerate new applications or explore new revenue models, some of the developers may have stood-up an Amazon Web Services environment. Maybe there are some other dev teams using Microsoft Azure, and IT has responded by setting-up Azure WTHREE STEPS TO DEFINING YOUR RIGHT MIX OF HYBRID CLOUDBy Rohit Dixit, Senior VP & General Manager - Advisory & Professional Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)In his career spanning over 25 years, Rohit has held an array of leadership roles across companies such as Essen Computers, Halliburton Energy Services, A.T. Kearney, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.IN MY OPINION
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