Is hybrid just today’s IT?

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It’s like renting a car: not much point where you live, but for a weekend or a vacation it’s what makes sense. Combining cloud services with on-prem’ technology and choosing what suits your business best is the key value of hybrid IT, Sudheesh Nair, Nutanix

Carry believes it is all too often forgotten in the tech hype that most organisations have persistent and consistent workloads that support back office and routine administrative tasks. “The benefits of cloud around scalability and agility, spinning up and down, usage-based pricing and so on are simply not very relevant to those workloads.

“Most customers begin with SaaS in some form, then progress to PaaS and generally IaaS only comes into the picture if they need it. So there is a form of tiering and some applications and services become ‘commodity’, by which I mean that there is less opportunity for the enterprise to differentiate itself competitively. So we see CRM, HR, service desk, email and office applications as generic services — you just need them done well, efficiently and at a cost point.”

The opportunity to differentiate from competitors is where the business logic is implemented on a certain technology platform, Carry said. “That is where they need ownership and more customisation — plus the opportunity to optimise and change and respond to their markets. The sheer range of options and alternatives is what makes hybrid IT so potentially valuable for all types of organisation.”

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