Aug 29, 2022
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. Although that seems a predictable point, not everyone is on board. Recent research from Fujitsu has identified that about a quarter of 300 global companies did not conform to best practices in this regard, leaving them exposed to greater risk of substandard performance.
In search of further insights, the authors also spoke to several senior digital execs, including Reto Urs Sahli, CIO at Asahi Europe and International. His company worked hard to align its hybrid cloud strategy with the goals of the wider business.