Hybrid cloud makes sense for CIOs

October 13, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Admire Moyo.

Understanding and capitalising on hybrid cloud are priorities for today’s CIOs. That’s according to Servaas Venter, country manager at EMC Southern Africa, who explains because it incorporates public and private clouds, a hybrid cloud brings together the best of both worlds by enabling businesses and their IT organisations unprecedented flexibility where they host their many and varied workloads.

Market analyst firm Gartner believes almost 50% of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. It says in the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for many large enterprises. Hybrid cloud computing is at the same place today as private cloud was three years ago: actual deployments are low, but aspirations are high, according to Gartner…

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