Getting To Grips With Hybrid Cloud

IDC Infobrief

Published February 2021

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Digital Leaders focus more strongly on using advanced automation and orchestration as well as intelligent assisted operations for agility and flexibility, while also proactively managing performance and cost.

Most companies are embracing cloud, but very few are transitioning completely to public cloud. Even the most digitally advanced companies have a strong on-premises preference, but they are the most open to using cloud alongside this.

Almost all workloads – with suitable optimization – are now capable of running in the public cloud. However, most companies still prefer to keep many workloads on-premises or deploy them in a hybrid cloud approach for performance, security or privacy reasons.

Managing workloads across different cloud environments, and optimizing where they run over time as performance and costs change, will be vital to keep applications delivering on user expectations and avoid bill shocks for the IT department.