Is Hybrid Cloud the New Silver Lining in Cloud Migration?

Enterprises are increasingly focusing on transforming their businesses digitally which is disrupting the traditional business models that have given them the competitive advantage till now. The abundance of data collected and processed by the companies on a day to day basis cannot possibly rely on an on-premise data centre. Innovation is happening across industries, necessitating an accelerated adoption of new technologies.

An effective digital strategy requires a flexible and agile IT infrastructure, which is cost-optimised and rationalised in terms of workload. This poses CIOs with the challenge to make available new IT capabilities which requires an evolved infrastructure to run many of the cloud native applications and migrate traditional applications to cloud, to drive business efficiency.

In such an environment, public cloud has emerged as a cornerstone for CIOs to address these infrastructure challenges and modernise the platforms. As per Gartner, 68 www.dqindia.com this shift in approach from ‘cloud-first’ to ‘cloud-only’ strategy has led to organisations in India increasing their public cloud services expenditure, with revenues forecasted to touch $2.4billion in 2019, resulting in India recording the third-highest growth rate globally.

While the Indian cloud market is maturing; it is no longer about only getting on cloud but achieving the right outcomes as well. Indian companies are recognising the competitive edge that cloud can provide in terms of business agility, cost efficiencies as well as adding a differentiated value.

While shifting to cloud is the solution, the migration is undeniably time-consuming and highly expensive, especially when over 80% of the workload is still onpremise. For example, Netflix, a US-based mediaservice provider, took almost seven years to completely migrate to the cloud. The flexibility and scalability