Hybrid Cloud

Essential for Success Even as enterprise IT shops are deploying private clouds to increase agility and reduce costs, they are also increasing the number of workloads being run in public clouds in order to meet the dynamic needs of the business. This means that the role of “cloud broker” is now part of the CIO’s strategic posture as a partner with the business.

It also means the tension within IT on moving to the cloud will resolve as organizations recognize that a hybrid cloud model is needed to serve theirapplication portfolio.

In the course of this transition, IT leaders find themselves having to manage data and maintain control across multi-cloud environments.

However, this is a challenging and rapidly evolving environment that re-quires IT leaders to bring extensive cloud knowledge and well-honed ne-gotiating skills to the table when it’s time to make decisions on major issues such as data control and man-agement, consistent SLAs, govern-ance, and security - all with an eye toward delivering on the top priorities of today's CIO as reported in the 2014 State of the CIO Survey.

From Builders to Brokersof IT Services

The CIO and Hybrid Cloud:

Global Survey Confirms Hybrid IT is the New NormalTo meet ongoing needs of the business, Enterprises are deploying private clouds to:

IncreaseAgility

ReduceCosts

Increase theNumber ofWorkloads

Being Run in thePublic Cloud

Cloud Service Delivery via Cloud Is Expected To Rise

58%

IT Service Delivery Today

30%IT Service Delivery in Three Years

Why the Move to Public Cloud?

Easier to scale-up/scale-down to accomodate business needs

Better access to less expensive, more flexible compute

58%49%

44%Able to buy and

use resources on a per-need basis

Hybrid Clouds, Serious Challenges

Hybrid cloud’s challenges, from both a business and IT standpoint:

Consumption forecasting for a distributedenterprise

Business Challenge: IT Challenge:Difficult to maintain and control data across multi-cloud environments

82% Consider the challengesto be either critical orvery important

CIO Concerns, RoleEvolving role of CIO/IT to meet demands and requirements of hybrid cloud environments:

1/3More than

of IT leaders–36%–predict cloud (technology as a service) will have the most profound impact on the CIO

Source: State of the CIO Survey (CIO Magazine)

However, There Are Ways to

Overcome the DataManagement Obstacles

83% Highly important to offerconsistent SLAs acrosscloud environments

82% Manage and control dataamong multiple private andpublic cloud resources

Moving from builders to brokers:Managing workloads across cloud environments

Importance of Ability to Manage Data SeamlesslyAcross Multiple Cloud Environments:

Critical

Very Important

Somewhat Important

Not Very Important

Not at all Important

35%

43%

34%8%

1%

Need For a Common DataPlatform Across CloudsChallenge of data management and control is the primaryobstacle to more effective utilization of the public cloud

Aspects of control and management that are most difficult:

48%Data Protection

41%Data Governance

35%Access Control

Customers Need ChoicesWhen Choosing CloudService Solutions,Eliminate vendor and cloud provider lock-in

CIOs Consider the Following to be Either Critical or Very Important:

84%

Availability of services and support to be successful

90%

Vendor's ability to address risk factors in deploying clouds

71%

Vendor's ability to enable IT to remain in the driver's seat

72%Commitment to an openness, including APIs, open sourceoptions and a multi-vendor ecosystem

Business PayoffStrategic IT is Better ITThe 2014 State of the CIO Survey found the Top CIO Priorities to be:

GrowCorporateRevenue

EnableCustomer

Acquisition& Retention

SimplifyIT

LeadProduct

InnovationEfforts

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