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Hybrid IT For Dummies, HPE Special Edition 50 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Consultants Sometimes you need some expertise, training, or skills short term that would not make sense to hire internally. You may only need a specific set of skills for a short period of time. This is where consultants come in. Consultants are generally experts in their field and can often help you with both the strategic and tactical aspects of your hybrid IT undertaking. Good consultants will also share knowledge with your internal team through knowledge transfer. If you're looking for consultants to help you in this, consider contacting the HPE Pointnext team. HPE Pointnext consul- tants can help you assess your infrastructure and all your applications, and provide you with recommendations on where workloads should operate. Plus, they'll be able to help you ensure that the on‐premises portion of the environment is running the right infrastructure to meet application demands. Service providers You likely have a reseller or two that provides you with hard- ware and software for your operations. These value‐added resellers (VARs) generally have on‐staff experts that are inti- mately familiar with specific technology spaces and can easily augment your current staff. In addition, you may be able to get consulting assistance from your cloud provider. Cloud provider specialization There was a day when cloud service providers were jacks‐of‐all‐trades, but masters of none. They supported very general workloads, but may not have always been experts on spe- cific workloads and security con- cerns around those workloads. Times have changed. Today, cloud providers are becoming more specialized to meet specific workload, industry security, and compliance needs. And HPE is helping to lead the way in working with these cloud providers. If you need help with cloud, visit w w w . c l o u d 2 8 p l u s . c o m . Cloud28+ is a resource intended to help you learn about the cloud and find providers that can help you with you specific needs.