Hybrid IT Solutions

Hybrid is the new reality.

As organizations move to the cloud, most are combining legacy on-premises infrastructure and infrastructure in the cloud. As a result, complexity abounds as IT teams strive to integrate their environment into a cohesive workspace that enables the business.

When executed effectively, a hybrid approach brings many benefits:

Speed innovation and service delivery by provisioning apps more quickly.
Match the right cloud to the right workload, making the most of on-premises cloud for legacy, predictable apps and hyperscale cloud for newer apps that require scalability and flexibility.
Respond elastically to seasonal or periodic fluctuations in resource requirements.
Offset on-premises data center investment costs by leveraging public cloud during peak periods.

While a hybrid approach gives the enterprise the best of both worlds, it must be approached with careful planning to ensure seamless interoperability between environments.

“Fully realized hybrid cloud deployments integrate compute, storage, security, networking, applications and management into a common, highly orchestrated on-site/off-site IT operations 'workspace,' enabling developers and operations personnel to leverage the speed and agility of public cloud in concert with the existing tools, systems and policies being used in the enterprise data center.”

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