{"id":17905,"date":"2015-10-08T08:12:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T08:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=236581"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T08:12:54","slug":"developing-a-winning-hybrid-cloud-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/developing-a-winning-hybrid-cloud-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a winning hybrid cloud strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-236591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"610\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey revealed two thirds of enterprises plan to implement multiple cloud services over the next 18 months, but adopting a hybrid cloud strategy can be far from straightforward. 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