EDITOR’S QUESTION
HOW BEST SHOULD
REGIONAL CIOs
APPROACH THE
TRANSITION TO THE
CLOUD AND THE
ADOPTION OF MODELS
SUCH AS HYBRID
CLOUD?
I
n May 2016 Red Hat’s Alessandro
Perilli, GM Open Hybrid Cloud,
discussed in his article on our website
how an open hybrid cloud consists of five
core pillars: ‘The first pillar is the capability
to empower IT organisations with the
right tools to address the demand of
the line of business in the cloud era. The
second pillar is the capability to embrace
and support the IT diversity in an
enterprise environment, irrespective of the
selected IT strategy for cloud computing.’
‘The third pillar is the capability to adapt
to your IT maturity level, providing more
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sophisticated cloud capabilities only when
the IT organisation is ready to deploy
them. The fourth pillar is the capability to
extend easily, supporting a broad set of
hardware and enterprise management
tools, thanks to a modular architecture
and a rich ecosystem of partners. The fifth
and final pillar is a strong foundation on
open source technologies, which provide
the innovation necessary to transform
your IT,’ he said.
IDC released predictions for this year
and beyond at the end of 2015, noting
that the big drivers for increased
implementation of hybrid clouds are
IT’s continuing quest for optimised
infrastructure, and the ability of
solution builders to source application
and infrastructure components from
multiple providers to construct a
hybrid cloud-based solution.
Furthermore, IDC predicts that by
the end of 2018, 40% of IT spend
across hardware, software and
services will be for cloud oriented
technologies, and by 2020, 45%-
50% of all spend will be for cloud
delivered models.
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