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Book Description

Enterprises are embracing the hybrid cloud to modernize IT for the digital era, but given the significant complexity that still exists in cross-cloud management and integration, many companies struggle to create an effective hybrid cloud strategy.

In this ebook, IT industry expert Philip Trautman examines why the hybrid cloud has become the preferred enterprise model. IT leaders will learn how to assess, plan, and implement a hybrid cloud strategy to achieve greater visibility and control over both traditional enterprise applications and cloud-native applications—all while decreasing management complexity.

By following this approach, you’ll choose a single framework—a cloud OS—to manage workloads on-premises and in the cloud; modernize on-premises environments; and select cloud providers compatible with the chosen framework.

  • Explore hybrid cloud benefits, including the flexibility to take advantage of distributed and edge environments
  • Assess your current operations and future workload needs and create a decision matrix to establish hybrid cloud goals
  • Choose a cloud operating environment and determine how to modernize data centers and other infrastructure
  • Select public clouds, cloud service providers, and SaaS providers that work with your cloud OS
  • Shift your development efforts to DevOps to accelerate delivery of new applications and services
  • Make organizational changes to ensure hybrid cloud and DevOps success

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Is It Time to Embrace Hybrid Cloud?
    1. What This Report Covers
    2. The Cloud Is Reshaping Enterprise IT
    3. What Is a Hybrid Cloud?
    4. Applications and the Hybrid Cloud
    5. The State of Hybrid Cloud
    6. Summary
  2. 2. Understanding the Hybrid Cloud
    1. What Are the Benefits of Hybrid Cloud?
    2. Why Is Hybrid Cloud the Preferred Enterprise Model?
      1. Recognized Public Cloud Limitations
      2. Increasing Importance of Distributed and Edge Environments
      3. Public Clouds Expand Hybrid Cloud Offerings
    3. A Strategy for Hybrid Cloud Success
    4. Summary
  3. 3. Assessing Your Hybrid Cloud Needs
    1. Assess the Current State of Your Operations
    2. Assess Your Future Workload Needs
    3. Creating a Workload Decision Matrix
    4. Seek Buy-In
    5. Establish Your High-Level Hybrid Cloud Goals
    6. Summary
  4. 4. Designing Your Hybrid Cloud: On-Premises and Private Cloud
    1. Choosing a Cloud Operating System
    2. Modernizing Datacenters
    3. Availability, Data Protection, and Compliance
    4. Summary
  5. 5. Designing Your Hybrid Cloud: Public Clouds, CSPs, and SaaS
    1. Choosing Public Clouds and CSPs
      1. Public Clouds
      2. Cloud Service Providers
    2. Working with SaaS Providers
    3. Summary
  6. 6. Getting Serious About DevOps
    1. What Is DevOps?
    2. The Importance of Infrastructure to DevOps
    3. Infrastructure Automation for DevOps
    4. Summary
  7. 7. Adapting Your Organization to Hybrid Cloud
    1. Why Organizational Change Is Necessary
      1. Reprioritize IT Resources
      2. Reduce Reliance on IT Specialists
    2. Organizational Changes for DevOps
    3. Summary
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