Foundations of Hybrid IT

Hybrid IT's operating model provides the agility, flexibility, and innovation needed to drive your business forward.

A hybrid IT model enables IT to deliver on key business goals:

Increase customer engagement, share of wallet, satisfaction, and loyalty
Create new areas of profitable growth and differentiation
Reduce risk and lower operational costs by accelerating and driving efficiency

This report explains what hybrid IT is, why it matters in today’s fast-moving world, and how to get the most from this new operating model. It covers the foundational technologies required to set up a hybrid IT infrastructure, the questions you’ll need to address, and challenges that might crop up along the way.
What you’ll find inside:

Why hybrid IT is the future: The hybrid IT operating model disrupts old ways of thinking and leads to innovative ideas and growth. Read why hybrid IT is about exploration and finding a new, more competitive business model.

Survival skills: Everything you want to know about clouds and hybrid IT is spelled out. Learn more about the various cloud options and services, and why the cloud isn’t right for everything.

How to evolve your infrastructure to hybrid IT: The path to hybrid IT is dictated by business needs. Deployment requires buy-in from both business and IT, and finding the right balance between CapEx and OpEx will be critical.

How hybrid IT enables the software-defined data center: It’s a complex path to a fully virtualized hybrid IT environment, but the boost in performance, agility, and cost benefits is worth it. Get up to speed on the major concepts and technologies you’ll need to move forward.

Packaging your environment for hybrid IT: Understanding the appropriate use cases for VMs and containers is key. Learn why containers shouldn’t be used in a vacuum and why appropriate management tools are important.

The edge vs. central IT: You’ll need a strategy for how to handle the data collected by sensors and monitors in the Internet of Things, as well as where to locate the compute power, storage, and analytics engines essential to successful IoT implementations.

Composable infrastructure and business breakthroughs
Overview

Many companies find themselves running hybrid IT by accident, but successful digital transformation requires an intentional plan. Composable infrastructure, which can be managed as code, supports the continuous, iterative development model that’s essential to keeping up with users.

Forrester Consulting evaluated IT decision makers leading their organizations through digital transformation to explore the technologies used, challenges experienced, and benefits gained from their hybrid IT models.

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