Hybrid cloud is the future, even if executives don’t quite know what to make of it
August 10, 2016
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.
A recent survey of IT leaders finds most acknowledge that hybrid cloud computing is the way to go. However, most are also still trying to understand what it all means. Such is the result of a study of 1,050 IT executives by The Hybrid Hive, a news site sponsored by Fujitsu and several other partners.
Hybrid is already commonplace — two-fifths of respondents report they already have a hybrid IT environment in place, while 51% are open to it. Companies are spending almost a third of their total IT budgets on cloud, with 14% spending more than half of their budgets on this technology. Four-fifths (79%) of IT executives believe it is "inevitable" that the future of corporate IT infrastructure is hybrid, while 81% agree they will have to deploy a hybrid IT environment to meet the needs of their organizations…
However, there is still a learning curve that needs to be climbed. Close to two-thirds, 62%, admit they need more help to understand hybrid IT and its implications. Plus, 37% admit they don’t know what a "good" hybrid IT model looks like, while only 33% say they do…
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