Points To Consider Before Developing Hybrid Cloud

Asia Pacific holds a wealth of growth opportunities for businesses, with the region contributing to over 60 percent of the global GDP.

- Brendan Paget

Since it also houses more than four billion unique mobile users, offering mobile applications with a good customer experience will be key to tapping into the region’s economic potential.

Organisations are increasingly making cloud their default deployment choice — with plans for a hybrid/multicloud future — to effectively address customers’ demand for an ongoing stream of compelling new and differentiated services, features, and experiences. Case in point: IDC found that 70 percent of organisations have deployed multicloud environments, and 64 percent of applications in a typical IT portfolio today are based in a cloud environment, whether public or private.

Hybrid cloud can empower organisations to use digital capabilities and technologies to help them be service delivery ready and facilitate business agility. It allows organisations to focus on innovating instead of “keeping the lights on” by providing a consistent environment to build, deploy, and manage applications, regardless of the underlying infrastructure (ie, on-premise, public or private cloud).

According to the Red Hat Global Customer Tech Outlook 2019 report, only 30 percent of organisations have a hybrid cloud strategy. For a hybrid cloud to help accelerate innovation, it should not be built as an afterthought. Here are four questions organisations should ask themselves as they develop a hybrid cloud strategy: