3 Ways To Enable Hybrid Cloud
July 14, 2015
Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Colm Keegan.
Summertime and the living’s easy, or so the song says. For some overworked IT pros, the summer might represent an opportunity for a brief vacation and some much needed downtime to recharge their depleted batteries. But for many others it could be more like the old ’80s song “Cruel Summer,” particularly if they can’t get a grip on their businesses’ cloud strategy.
Many businesses are turning to cloud services alternatives as a way to increase business agility and reduce costs, a trend that appears to be accelerating. For example, when ESG started tracking the use of cloud as an IT cost-containment measure back in 2009, it ranked dead last compared to eight other cost containment measure strategies…
As of this year, however, cloud is now rated No. 2 for helping contain IT costs (second only to renegotiating contracts). To further illustrate the momentum behind the public cloud as an alternative to traditional IT services, 601 IT respondents to ESG’s 2015 Spending Intentions survey indicated they were currently using the following cloud services: SaaS 68%; IaaS 41%: and PaaS 35%…
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