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Chapter 7: Enabling Hybrid IT 51 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Understanding Hybrid IT Consumption Models I've talked about how to consume the individual sides of the hybrid IT model — on‐premises versus cloud. There are a number of reasons that you should seriously consider a hybrid cloud undertaking of your own. Getting the best of both worlds When you have applications that need to be close to the users in your single campus buildings and these apps are latency sensitive or require intensive use of data, you should run them locally. If you need to ensure that all your customers around the world are able to access your e‐commerce store- front, or have employees that work on a collaboration tool across your company, that application might best fit in the cloud. Proper setup and management of a hybrid IT environment ensures that you always have the ability to operate workloads in the location that makes the most sense. Blending security You can decide on an environment that is suitable from a security perspective on an application‐by‐application basis. If you need super‐tight local control or an application, keep it local. If you need to deploy an application into a cloud pro- vider's hardened environment, go for it. Many providers now have specialized environments to meet the specific security needs of healthcare and government verticals. Gaining agility, flexibility, performance, scalability, and economic benefits Perhaps the most important thing to understand is that, with hybrid IT, you can get all kinds of core benefits. You can match