Successful hybrid clouds begin with IT broker skills
December 4, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Trevor Jones.
Enterprises are typically behind the curve on innovation, but that needs to change as we enter a new phase of IT. It’s critical that enterprise IT looks at ways to optimize existing data centers and develop and implement new strategies around hybrid cloud deployments to be successful in a changing business world, according to a chorus of analysts from Gartner, Inc., based in Stamford, Conn.
"Cloud computing is here, it is a major wave and you must act immediately in developing your strategy and associated plans, otherwise that wave will certainly consume you," said Dennis Smith, research director at Gartner. IT has become more integrated into the business strategies as those decisions become more integral to the overall health of the company, the analysts said repeatedly during the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure and Operations Management Conference here this week…
IT pros need to start thinking horizontally and fill the role of integrating end-to-end hybrid cloud monitoring that ties all the pieces together…
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