Hybrid Cloud evokes new needs

INDIA: Hybrid Cloud is witnessing a lot of layers if a recent report indicates it well. Multi-cloud, Shadow IT, service templates and monitoring are some of the prominent ones.

About 51 per cent respondents in a report consider that the Hybrid Cloud has the potential to allow the consolidation of the management of all cloud services. Further to that, respondents said that when deploying a hybrid cloud solution the most important factors to be considered are the ability to monitor and optimise cloud costs (55 per cent) and performance (49 per cent).

In response to the potential risks represented by shadow IT, Bring-your-own device and cloud, the survey shows that recognition is high amongst IT professionals for the need of improved management and better governance.

As per this study commissioned by Canopy, the Atos Cloud, in collaboration with EMC conducted by Forrester Consulting that surveyed over 150 companies with revenues of over $1 billion across multiple countries,there is an increased adoption of hybrid cloud services with 58 per cent of the respondents saying they already have some form of hybrid cloud environment.

The research also demonstrates that a majority of companies now understand that their approach to cloud must be through a combination of cloud services. Organizations using hybrid cloud define it as a ‘cloud spread across multiple deployment models’ with 40 per cent of respondents seeing it as a combination of Private and Public Cloud usage.

Some 46 per cent of respondents identified the rewriting of applications to scale as a deployment scenario for Hybrid Cloud, and 33 per cent stated that they have already built some service templates across hybrid clouds. When asked what to watch for when deploying a hybrid cloud, 47 per cent of respondents said that it was important to ease the ability to port applications across different clouds.

Philippe Llorens, CEO at Canopy comments, “Managing a number of different cloud solutions represents a challenge and a new opportunity for IT leaders. They can solidify their own role within the business by consolidating, governing and managing a combination of cloud-based services to ensure they help meet business needs. With this objective in mind, IT leaders have started to articulate clear strategies in terms of security and governance, and look for partners who have the ability to assist them in their full cloud transformation”.