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As more businesses look to adopt a
hybrid cloud model, it’s crucial that they
have a well-defined strategy in place
to ensure they get the best out of it.
Industry experts from NetApp, Nutanix
and Hyve Managed Hosting offer their
best practice advice for organisations
intending to adopt a hybrid IT model.
Hybrid IT: The future
of infrastructure?
H
ybrid cloud offers many business benefits including
agility and flexibility. So it’s no wonder that research
shows a shift to this hybrid architecture. According to
Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report,
enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud
architectures, with respondents reporting steady and substantial
hybrid deployment plans over the next five years.
The vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85%) selected
hybrid cloud as their ideal IT operating model.
Meanwhile, ‘hybrid cloud’ has garnered the highest
percentage (48%) of Twitter mentions among the discussions
of world-leading cloud computing experts during the third
quarter (Q3) of 2019, according to GlobalData, a leading data
and analytics company.
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With this in mind, we spoke to industry experts who offered their
insights into how best to achieve a hybrid IT architecture.
WALID ISSA, SENIOR MANAGER SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING – NETAPP
In today’s Digital Transformation era, not everything belongs in a
public cloud, which is why so many forward-thinking companies
are choosing a hybrid IT model including the mixture of cloud
services. Hybrid clouds offer the benefits of both public and
private clouds and take advantage of existing architecture in a
data centre. In addition, the primary benefit of a hybrid IT model
is agility. The need to adapt and change direction quickly is a
core principle of a digital business. Your enterprise might want or
need to combine public clouds, private clouds and on-premises
resources to gain the agility it needs for a competitive advantage.
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