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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Chapter 1 Your Workloads, Your Options
• Traditional IT Architectural Options
• On‐premises infrastructure
• Managed service providers
• Hosting and colocation
• Private Cloud Features and Capabilities
• The Public Cloud: Panacea or Not?
• The real and perceived benefits of public cloud
• Public cloud operating models explained
• Bringing IT All Together: Hybrid IT
• Chapter 2 Hybrid IT Critical Success Factors
• Identifying the Problems with One‐Size‐Fits‐All Infrastructure
• Maintaining Performance Prerequisites
• Containing Workload Runtime Environment Costs
• On‐premises
• Public cloud
• Corralling Infrastructure Control
• Scaling to meet business demand
• IT‐as‐a‐Service
• Safeguarding the Organization
• Centralizing security control
• Internet of Things/ Device proliferation
• Keeping IT legal: Ensuring regulatory compliance
• Chapter 3 IT's All about the Workloads
• Assessing Workload Infrastructure Needs
• How application architecture drives cloud adoption decisions
• Why the network is the public cloud's Achilles heel
• Defining the right mix of infrastructure: Public, private, traditional
• Understanding Workload Locality
• Supporting legacy applications
• Cloud‐native application development
• The role of bursting
• Chapter 4 Workload Control
• Setting the Scene: Why Workload Control Matters
• Getting Clarity on Each Group's Role
• Resolving Cloud Security Myths
• Cloud is more secure than on‐premises!
• On‐premises is more secure than cloud!
• Understanding the Full Scope of On‐Premises Physical Security
• Denial‐of‐service attacks
• Compromised firmware
• Staff
• Chapter 5 The Real Costs of Workloads
• On‐Premises Infrastructure Economic Models
• Doing it yourself
• Turning to managed service providers
• Leasing
• Cloud Services: Uncovering the Costs, Hidden and Not
• Acquisition
• Scaling
• Data transfer and getting out of the cloud
• Chapter 6 HPE Hybrid IT Infrastructure
• Getting the Right Workload Environment Mix
• An Array of Options
• Infrastructure
• Converged infrastructure
• Hyperconverged infrastructure
• Composable infrastructure
• Bringing It all Together with HPE OneView
• The Services Front: HPE Pointnext
• Chapter 7 Enabling Hybrid IT
• Solving the Staffing Situation
• In‐house IT
• Consultants
• Service providers
• Understanding Hybrid IT Consumption Models
• Getting the best of both worlds
• Blending security
• Gaining agility, flexibility, performance, scalability, and economic benefits
• Maintaining Hybrid Control
• Avoiding cloud lock‐in
• Enabling workload transparency
• The perception of control
• Chapter 8 Ten Key Hybrid IT Tips
• EULA