In this paper we examine the relative costs and other advantages of four different cloud infrastructure approaches, two based on private or on-premises clouds and two on public clouds. These public and private approaches can in turn be combined to create a hybrid cloud deployment. The objective is to enable businesses to evaluate which cloud
The need for greater agility and access to latest innovations have driven cloud infrastructures to become increasingly attractive to organizations. Organizations migrate to the cloud to support business growth, drive digital transformations, improve development cycles and to optimize costs. During this transition, several migration and post-migration challenges emerge that increase time, risk and costs associated
Cloud infrastructure is becoming the primary deployment environment for a majority of workloads. As organizations pursue a measured approach to infrastructure and workload changes via the adoption of a hybrid cloud strategy, they’re recognizing that having the same architecture on-premises and in the cloud is important. This enables consistent infrastructure and operations across on-premises and
Companies with multi-cloud services are outperforming their peers on a number of metrics — and achieving the key objectives that led them to the cloud services model. Take a look at the IT ecosystem of any company today and there’s a good chance you’ll find it includes offerings from several cloud services providers. That’s certainly
A multi-cloud world is quickly becoming the new normal for many enterprises. But embarking on a cloud journey and managing cloud-based services across multiple providers can seem overwhelming. Even the term multi-cloud can be confusing. Multi-cloud is not the same as hybrid cloud. The technical definition of hybrid cloud is an environment that includes traditional
Just as virtualization revolutionized IT infrastructure, the rise of the cloud has changed the playing field again. What we’re experiencing today is nothing less than a seismic change in the way organizations operate and evolve. But innovation can often outpace planning in this multi-cloud world, and businesses hoping to drive growth confront a host of
CLOUD APPEAL Global adoption of the cloud is accelerating at a dizzying rate each year with businesses of all sizes realizing the cost-saving, flexibility, and scalability benefits of migrating and running applications in the cloud. In our 2019 State of Application Services report, 87% of respondents reported having multicloud architectures. As pressure to move applications
This IDC white paper examines and highlights key enterprise needs and requirements in utilizing hybrid cloud services, which spans both the transformation to cloud and the continuous management of cloud environments (both private and public), as well as critical challenges in utilizing these types of services. This white paper also discusses IBM’s hybrid cloud services
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