We’ve now entered the proclaimed “Year of the Hybrid Cloud,” during which more than 65 percent of enterprise IT organizations say they will commit to hybrid cloud technologies, according to IDC FutureScape for Cloud. Hybrid cloud is attractive because organizations believe they can achieve greater levels of scalability and cost-effectiveness by using a combination of in-house IT resources and public cloud environments tailored to their unique needs.
But it’s important for enterprises to understand that this new approach to IT architecture presents several significant management problems. In fact, the hybrid cloud can result in greater IT complexity and cost since each environment brings with it its own unique tools for deployment, management and monitoring, and companies will have to hire more employees who specialize in each type of cloud technology.