siliconindia | | July 20199Stack. Most enterprises also have a tremendous amount of legacy software running on dedicated infrastructure and still have dev teams and support teams working on that. But at no point did anyone have the time to think it through strategically and decide what should go where across all the different areas of IT. There's no comprehensive view of where exactly things stand or how to move forward. Sounds familiar?Three Steps to Defining Your Right MixHybrid Cloud strategy is currently one of the hottest topics when I speak to customers. Here are some insights from conversations I have had with CIOs from many different industries in the past year. 1. Align your IT Strategy to your Business Strategy: You may find identifying your right mix to be a significant challenge due to these complexities and the rate of change in technology and business. Identify what is needed to align your IT to the business outcomes you want to achieve. An integrated, end-to-end IT transformation strategy is essential for successful business transformation. Your next generation IT operating model will be key, as it supports the alignment of your IT transformation to your targeted business outcomes. The most successful organizations mature their operating model capabilities across key domains such as security/risk/compliance, service portfolio design, automation strategies, and talent/skills, just to name a few. Make sure that as you change your choices for where your applications and workloads run and how you consume them, your organization adapts to effectively take advantage of these new IT `supply chain' strategies.2. Take an Application-in Approach: While some move to cloud for economic or outmoded technology reasons, ultimately, in order to optimize your Hybrid Cloud mix, you need to understand your full application portfolio to decide which workloads and applications are ideal to move to public clouds, or keep in private clouds, and how to migrate those workloads to achieve the right mix of Hybrid Cloud according to each business, technology, operational, or domain-specific need. Analyzing and getting transparency of your application portfolio will help you remove redundancies and avoid shadow IT, which can add to substantial cost savings and help you get your economics right. This can have significant impact on your investment plans.3. Continuously Optimize Your Blend of Public & Private Cloud: As things are constantly changing, new service providers are popping-up every day and we see the big public cloud providers constantly producing new services and pricing models. As a result, the calculus for determining your right mix is constantly changing. If for example, a cloud provider offers a new service capability or a pricing discount and it makes sense to leverage it, you want to be able to move an application seamlessly into that new environment. Thus, application portability becomes an important strategy in your right mix analysis.What is important is that each decision is part of your overall transformation plan and supports your business objectives. While speed is of essence in today's fast moving environment, you should avoid any isolated ad hoc decisions. Use a framework you trust that takes a holistic view of the transformation and execute equally & effectively across all domains of the framework. Moving to Hybrid Cloud is a significant technology shift. A carefully developed and well-executed strategy will enable you to get it right the first time and transform your enterprise for the future. While speed is of essence in today's fast moving environment, you should avoid any isolated ad hoc decisionsRohit Dixit
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