Hybrid cloud: It’s about busines
Established businesses have overwhelmingly adopted a hybrid cloud approach with workloads distributed
across multiple clouds, on-prem environments and at the edge. A recent report shows that over 72% of the 750 IT professionals and executive leaders surveyed are on both private and public clouds.1 However, according to a November 2023 study conducted by HFS Research in partnership with IBM Consulting ®
, the unfortunate reality is that only 25% of enterprises surveyed can boast a solid ROI on business outcomes from their cloud transformation efforts
The need for a hybrid by design approach for A
Many organizations have adopted cloud in pockets as they pursued “quick wins,” applying technology inconsistently across the business. These inconsistencies within different domains create heterogeneous
and siloed environments that drive up complexity and costs, in addition to inhibiting the ability to transform the more-critical workloads and meet ongoing business demands. This hybrid by default
approach has left IT dictating business limitations rather than creating the flexibility and scalability needed to address current and future business demands including gen AI—resulting in a low RO
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