Cloud Buyer’s Guide

Tips for Developing Effective Hybrid Cloud Data Strategies

Published November 2020

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In the cloud era, enterprises are searching for the best cloud strategy to increase agility, decrease costs, and foster greater innovation. Some have experimented with moving everything to the public cloud but soon discovered that not every application fits there, requiring significant porting effort and increasing costs without delivering the expected benefits.

Other companies have adopted a “cloud-first” approach. where new projects, including application updates and substitutions, are targeted to the public cloud. This approach has helped IT teams become more cloud-aware, but the results have been mixed—for many of the same reasons