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Organizations are quickly shifting to a mixed IT
environment, according to IDG's 2020 Cloud Computing
survey among 550 IT professionals.
The challenges associated with managing these environments
are complex. Consider workplace placement decisions.
"Hybrid cloud has become the IT model of choice," said James
Henry, worldwide go to market and business development manag-
er, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services. "It offers the best of both worlds
— on-premises and cloud. "And yet," he continued, "it's challenging
to find the 'right mix' across all this infrastructure to ensure you're
gaining efficiencies and best possible performance. It's about un-
derstanding each workload and putting them into buckets accord-
ing to their needs — such as SLA or compliance requirements."
It can be a time-consuming task, considering your organization
likely has hundreds, if not thousands of applications. 451 Research
suggests the top factors that weigh into workload placement
decisions include: security, cost, platform reliability, application
performance, and sovereignty/compliance issues. Add in the need
to consider these requirements against all the deployment options,
and the complexity around these decisions multiplies.
Another challenge in the hybrid landscape is cost visibility and
optimization. For example, different business units may need to
quickly spin up public cloud services and can't wait for IT to appro-
priate the expenditure. Costs here can quickly get out of control
when there's a lack of visibility.
HPE GreenLake Central helps companies overcome
these obstacles, and ensure IT organizations have a friction-free,
cohesive experience — freeing them to focus on strategic
business initiatives.
"We're bridging the worlds between on-premises and cloud with
the HPE GreenLake IT consumption model and HPE GreenLake
Cloud Services," Henry said. "And HPE GreenLake Central is the
umbrella over all of this, delivering Everything-as-a-Service."
Organizations Shifting to Mixed IT Environments
Source: IDG 2020 Cloud Computing survey
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