EDITOR’S QUESTION
WHAT BEST PRACTICE ADVICE WOULD
YOU OFFER TO ORGANISATIONS LOOKING
TO IMPLEMENT A HYBRID IT MODEL?
ybrid cloud’ has garnered
the highest percentage
(48%) of Twitter
mentions among the
discussions of the world’s
leading cloud computing
experts during the third quarter (Q3) of
2019, according to GlobalData, a leading
data and analytics company.
‘H
In terms of intensity of discussions, hybrid
cloud technology was followed by multi-
cloud with 36% share of discussions,
public cloud (13%) and private cloud (3%).
Brad Shimmin, Service Director at
GlobalData, said: “Within the rapidly
evolving market areas like Digital
Transformation, the cloud is no longer
seen as a final endpoint or destination;
rather it is but one aspect of a broader
resource continuum that combines
private, Edge and public cloud
workloads into a seamless, optimised
and reliable whole.”
An analysis of GlobalData’s Cloud
Computing Influencer Platform, which
tracks more than 250 global cloud
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
computing experts and their discussions
pertaining to emerging trends, pain areas,
new fields of innovation and other popular
areas on Twitter, reveals that ‘Artificial
Intelligence’ (AI) and ‘Internet of Things’
as two of the most significant trends in
hybrid cloud related discussions.
Cloud applications and cybersecurity
were seen as two major trends in multi-
cloud as the conversations imply that
many large organisations struggle with
security worries as they are trending
towards multi-cloud deployment where
applications will run across multiple cloud
providers. The next generation technology,
5G, also appeared as a top trend in multi-
cloud related conversations.
Shimmin added: “Unique business
opportunities surrounding technologies
like 5G and AI in particular are driving
this interest in hybrid computing, not out
of expense or simplicity but rather out
of necessity. For use cases like traffic
flow optimisation, for example, where
time sensitive predictive data analysis is
paramount, the installation of intelligence
at the Edge is truly the only way forward.”
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