Many IT leaders are under a mandate to embrace public cloud services as the logical solution to increase the speed of their digital transformation and innovation in IT. The best way to accomplish this is by taking advantage of different services, maintaining choice, and optimizing IT efforts and spend by easily running workloads on the cloud that makes the most sense. Public cloud is often chosen because it offers simplicity, usability, flexible consumption, and continuous improvement, but private cloud also has advantages that should not be overlooked. Legacy applications can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive to move due to refactoring, customization, and interdependencies. There are also regulatory concerns for the hosted data and where that data might be hosted. Finally, many enterprise applications that have on-going and predictable demand can have a lower TCO running on premises. Because of these many factors and advantages for both private and public cloud, can there be a middle ground? Hybrid cloud is the answer. A recent cloud usage report showed that 85% of IT professionals picked hybrid cloud as their ideal cloud model for their business. A hybrid multicloud offers the best features of all clouds: private and public.
