Formulating Cloud Strategy in the Hybrid
Multicloud Era

In their constant pursuit to create competitive digital businesses, enterprises will demand that IT vendors take full
advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Specifically, they will seek vendors competent in crafting holistic and uniform
means to create and deploy portable workloads to their best execution venues (e.g., on-premises infrastructure, public
and private clouds) and manage digital business continuity across highly distributed hybrid IT architecture. As workloads
continue to shift to exploit the price/performance advantages of various cloud services, the current means to evaluate
workload and venue characteristics and orchestrate distributed business processes will be challenged. New tools and
techniques will be required for IT infrastructure analysis and strategic planning. The current market lacks mature offerings.
However, we believe the best way to address these issues today can be found in the product management and professional
services teams of IT vendors tasked directly with hybrid multicloud client engagements.