Hybrid clouds are hot, SDNs and DevOps coming on strong
January 15, 2016
Grazed from CIO. Author: Clint Boulton.
If you’re a CIO the chances are good your computing environment looks something like this: A hybrid cloud comprising core business software hosted internally but interfacing with software-as-a-service applications that are important but not mission-critical. And you also have public cloud services where you test applications.
Eighty-one percent of 3,000 vice presidents of IT, network and infrastructure architects surveyed last summer by F5 Networks fit that profile, indicating that they plan on operating a hybrid cloud environment in the next two to five years, says Karl Triebes, CTO of the application services provider. He says some respondents are also considering migrating their networking systems to software-defined networks (SDNs), and embracing DevOps to gain greater operational efficiencies…
In a hybrid cloud, companies run core software such as ERP systems in a private cloud while outsourcing CRM, human resources, and collaboration applications. Forty-three percent of respondents cited the private cloud as having the most strategic importance, followed by SaaS and public clouds at 40 percent and 34 percent, respectively…
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