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To a greater or lesser extent, everyone uses public cloud services. It’s just that they also choose to use on-premises infrastructure to deliver some services. In some circumstances this can be a private cloud delivering similar capabilities as public cloud. This combination of public and private cloud, deployed by xx% of businesses, is what we call hybrid cloud.
Other reasons include avoiding the latency of a round trip of data packets to a distant cloud data center or the sheer impracticality of migrating aging but vital applications with numerous code revisions. However, the same report identified a group of companies, a third of the sample, that have a holistic and cohesive strategy that focuses on building capabilities acrossRecognized by the report’s authors as “leaders”, one of the ways these firms excel is by ensuring their hybrid cloud strategies are aligned with business-wide transformation agendas. Unsurprisingly, this group all agreed they had accelerated their business transformation.
“We created a digital plan that allowed us to align our IT portfolio with our strategy,” he explained. “We are now creating a new digital core, and with that comes a strategic investment into building our hybrid cloud.”The shift to a hybrid cloud environment usually requires significant investments of time, money, and resources. Executive buy-in is, therefore, critical to its success.
Miao Song, Global Chief Information Officer at GLP, says that CIOs must overcome this. “It’s important for the CIOs to be always at the frontend of technology development,” she says.