Gartner®: Blueprint for Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy
“As the pace of public cloud computing heightens expectations for internal IT delivery, the head of infrastructure and IT operations must ensure that the right strategic investments and plans are in place for hybrid cloud initiatives within the organization.”
“The primary mission for the head of infrastructure and IT operations should be to make sure that workloads can be processed in the best execution venue available.” This may mean that sometimes the execution venues will truly be cloud environments, but other times, they may be more cloud-inspired. How well the job gets done, not the label attached to it, is what matters most.
To build a credible blueprint for hybrid cloud, heads of infrastructure and IT operations must understand what public, private and hybrid cloud are – and how they differ from other solutions – as depicted in this Figure below
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