Hybrid Cloud is Here to Stay: Now What?

If one question has the habit of perpetually leaving businesses scratching their heads, it is the question of how to get the most out of the cloud. And while, in the past, the choice seemed to be two-fold – public or private – it’s now clearer than ever that the two need to not only co-exist, but work together to provide a solution where the whole is better than the sum of its parts.

Whether a company is looking to move a legacy application to public cloud, and stuck in the process, or choosing to invest in a private cloud environment while looking to public cloud to provide additional capacity, for example a disaster recovery site, the reality is that most are already managing multiple environments and multiple clouds.

According to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index, most agree that a hybrid IT model is ideal but adoption is lagging. Without the right tools in place businesses are left struggling. So what’s next? What are the top challenges businesses are facing in managing hybrid cloud infrastructures? And how can they be addressed?

This report takes a closer look at the challenges businesses are facing managing public and private clouds, and what they can do to set themselves up for future success using hybrid cloud.

Public cloud alone is not always the answer

Public cloud revolutionized the IT industry and offered businesses a solution to many of the problems they were facing – from increased agility to reduced operational overhead. However, they were quick to learn that, while it offered many benefits, it was not the right solution for all workloads and situations.

While all organizations surveyed are running some of their workloads on public cloud, most still have some reservations, especially regarding business- critical applications. When it comes to running the applications that are most vital to their businesses, respondents identified security (90%), reliability (75%), portability (73%), and cost (72%) as concerns.

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