Hybrid Cloud: The Pragmatic Path to Infrastructure Modernization
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Businesses turn to the hybrid cloud model to combine their on-site infrastructure with public cloud to revamp their operational footprint. The research focuses on or benefits the proliferation of operational flexibility, scalability, cost and business efficiency necessary for those processes that must keep running in a hybrid cloud. This study has been approached using quantitative data collection technique with IT Professionals of different business industry sectors. The results indicated that 89% of respondents felt more flexible on the operation and 84% of respondents felt the greatest benefit to be on the side of cost optimisation. 88% of the participants cited security and data privacy as a challenge to them. The study revealed that organizations stepped up their automated provisioning from 28% to 76%, once they introduced hybrid cloud systems. The study revealed that using hybrid cloud will enable organizations to modernise infrastructure without facing significant operational risks, while offering a sustainable approach to the modern infrastructure.
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