Sponsor: TierPoint

IT leaders have more options than ever when selecting infrastructure strategies: on-premises, off-premises, and hybrid cloud. With this range of choices comes the potential to positively impact budgets, staffing, operational effectiveness, and business outcomes by reaching the right balance. In 2019, IT organizations will be tasked with achieving this balance — and with making the right decisions to update enterprise infrastructure, enable application development, reduce cost and complexity, and accelerate the entire organization's modernization initiatives. In other words, IT will be responsible for enabling digital transformation (DX).

For forward-thinking IT leaders, a key step on the business’s transformation journey is moving workloads away from the premises data center to a private cloud managed by an expert data center services provider. As part of a hybrid strategy, a private cloud offers secure, dedicated hardware resources as a managed cloud service, hosted in a state of the art cloud center.

In this report, we will discuss the challenges of creating a hybrid environment, how to choose the best environment for your workloads, and the important role of private cloud in your hybrid strategy. We will also look at characteristics of “the right” private cloud to meet your needs, both today and in the future.