Even as enterprise IT shops are deploying private clouds to increase agility and reduce costs, they are also increasing the number of workloads being run in public clouds in order to meet the dynamic needs of the business. This means that the role of “cloud broker” is now part of the CIO’s strategic posture as a partner with the business.

1. Hybrid Cloud
Essential for Success
Even as enterprise IT shops are deploying private clouds to increase agility and
reduce costs, they are also increasing the number of workloads being run in
public clouds in order to meet the dynamic needs of the business. This means
that the role of “cloud broker” is now part of the CIO’s strategic posture as a
partner with the business.
It also means the tension within IT on moving to the cloud will resolve as
organizations recognize that a hybrid cloud model is needed to serve their
application portfolio.
In the course of this transition, IT leaders
find themselves having to manage data
and maintain control across multi-cloud
environments.
However, this is a challenging and
rapidly evolving environment that re-
quires IT leaders to bring extensive
cloud knowledge and well-honed ne-
gotiating skills to the table when it’s
time to make decisions on major
issues such as data control and man-
agement, consistent SLAs, govern-
ance, and security - all with an eye
toward delivering on the top priorities
of today's CIO as reported in the
2014 State of the CIO Survey.
From Builders to Brokers
of IT Services
The CIO and Hybrid Cloud:
Global Survey Confirms Hybrid IT is the New Normal
To meet ongoing needs of the business, Enterprises are deploying private clouds to:
Increase
Agility
Reduce
Costs
Increase the
Number of
Workloads
Being Run in the
Public Cloud
Cloud Service Delivery via Cloud Is Expected To Rise
58%
IT Service Delivery Today
30%
IT Service Delivery in Three Years
Why the Move to
Public Cloud?
Easier to scale-up/scale-down
to accomodate business needs
Better access to less expensive,
more flexible compute
58%
49%
44%
Able to buy and
use resources on
a per-need basis
Hybrid Clouds,
Serious Challenges
Hybrid cloud’s challenges, from both a business and IT standpoint:
Consumption forecasting
for a distributed
enterprise
Business Challenge: IT Challenge:
Difficult to maintain
and control data
across multi-cloud
environments
82% Consider the challenges
to be either critical or
very important
CIO Concerns, Role
Evolving role of CIO/IT to meet demands and requirements of hybrid cloud environments:
1/3
More than
of IT leaders–36%–predict cloud
(technology as a service) will have
the most profound impact on the
CIO
Source: State of the CIO Survey (CIO Magazine)
However, There Are Ways to
Overcome the Data
Management Obstacles
83% Highly important to offer
consistent SLAs across
cloud environments
82% Manage and control data
among multiple private and
public cloud resources
Moving from builders to brokers:
Managing workloads across cloud environments
Importance of Ability to Manage Data Seamlessly
Across Multiple Cloud Environments:
Critical
Very Important
Somewhat Important
Not Very Important
Not at all Important
35%
43%
34%
8%
1%
Need For a Common Data
Platform Across Clouds
Challenge of data management and control is the primary
obstacle to more effective utilization of the public cloud
Aspects of control and management that are most difficult:
48%Data Protection
41%Data Governance
35%Access Control
Customers Need Choices
When Choosing Cloud
Service Solutions,
Eliminate vendor and cloud provider lock-in
CIOs Consider the Following to be Either Critical or Very Important:
84%
Availability of services and support to be successful
90%
Vendor's ability to address risk factors in deploying clouds
71%
Vendor's ability to enable IT to remain in the driver's seat
72%
Commitment to an openness, including APIs, open source
options and a multi-vendor ecosystem
Business Payoff
Strategic IT is Better IT
The 2014 State of the CIO Survey found the Top CIO Priorities to be:
Grow
Corporate
Revenue
Enable
Customer
Acquisition
& Retention
Simplify
IT
Lead
Product
Innovation
Efforts
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