When you look at your calendar, browse your favorite tech news sites and leaf through your interoffice mail, one topic likely keeps coming up: the benefits of cloud services. Dropbox, Salesforce, Workday and more reside in the cloud, but at your organization, you’ve relied on homegrown applications or an ill-fitting, slow-moving cloud strategy. If you move everything to the cloud, what kind of risk will you incur? What (or who) will you lose, and how painful will the move be? A carefully planned and executed hybrid IT strategy ensures that you’ll get the most from your cloud and on-premises solutions. Without an effective cloud strategy in place, you’re likely to become overwhelmed to the point of inactivity. Fear of losing ground to the competition, pressure to keep costs down and a genuine lack of knowledge about the best path forward could keep you in limbo forever. Join us to learn: --Best practices for hybrid IT implementation --Advantages and disadvantages of hybrid IT --Tips for leveraging the latest hybrid IT tools --How to find the right mix of traditional, on-prem environments, along with private and public clouds

1. OPTIMIZING YOUR IT STRATEGY
5 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL HYBRID IT

2. MEET THE
EXPERTS
JOE VIDAL
NA Hybrid IT Chief
Technologist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
KEN HOWELL
Converged Infrastructure and
Storage Architect
Sirius

4. IS HYBRID IT
THE NEW
NORMAL?

5. A study conducted by IDC found
that 90% of respondents
had a hybrid IT strategy in place.
In a recent survey conducted
by Forrester, two-thirds of
the organizations ended up
with hybrid IT by accident.
Research suggests that an
increasing number of IT
departments are experimenting with
cloud or are working toward
integrating it into their IT Strategy.
Source: IDC, Forrester

6. Last year Dropbox collaborated with HPE to move their
data on-premises in the U.S. while the cloud “lives” in
Europe.
Dropbox completed one the largest reverse cloud
migrations ever undertaken, moving some
600 petabytes
from Amazon’s cloud to its own data centers.

7. Trying to transform your
company’s infrastructure without
the correct strategy and technical
expertise can severely disrupt
your business.
THE TRUTH ABOUT
HYBRID IT

8. Ask Yourself:
WHERE DOES YOUR
ORGANIZATION STAND WITH
HYBRID IT?
a) We have adopted hybrid IT
b) We have adopted a cloud first strategy
c) We don’t have hybrid IT
d) Not sure I understand the question

9. 5 THINGS TO AVOID WITH HYBRID IT
1. Inflexible infrastructures that hold back deployment
2. Complexity that undermines control over IT
3. Traditional IT operations that impede application development
4. Legacy infrastructure that increases business risks
5. IT procurement and provisioning processes that increase costs

10. Flexibility is Key to Accelerating Speed of Service

11. 91% 92% 89% 89%
gained a
competitive edge
over traditional
competitors.
were able to meet
customer
expectations
improved user
experience (UX)
streamlined their
business processes
WHEN DONE BY DESIGN, HYBRID IT HAS THE
POTENTIAL TO HELP BUSINESSES SEE
INCREASED BENEFITS

12. 5 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL
HYBRID IT

13. Conducting a comprehensive security
audit should be the first task on your list.
ONE
SECURING YOUR
HYBRID IT

14. • This includes evaluating firewall policies as well as
any existing applications that require a firewall rule.
• You’ll also want to examine all users, existing
privileges, policies and procedures surrounding the
granting and monitoring of admin rights.
• A comprehensive monitoring or logging solution
can help identify shadow IT situations, and it will help
your organization maintain control.

15. The way your workload is structured
should reflect the uniqueness of your
infrastructure.
TWO
WORKLOAD
PLACEMENT

16. Just because you can place your workload on the
cloud doesn’t mean that you should.
Four key factors should influence your workload
placement:
• Hybrid IT security and compliance
• Total cost of ownership
• Application performance
• Level of control with regard to company culture
and policies.

17. You’ll want to avoid the traditional method of
pulling together a mixture of siloed tools, as
this will only add complexities down the road.
THREE
CROSS-PLATFORM
MANAGEMENT &
MONITORING

18. IT administrators agree that a hybrid infrastructure
introduces a host of management and monitoring
complexities.
When evaluating the monitoring and management
solutions for hybrid IT, be sure to consider what
capabilities you need in your cloud and how they
might impact your whole environment.

19. FOUR
EVALUATING
YOUR
INFRASTRUCTURE
Identifying your core applications can be
a complex task because applications that
support critical business operations vary
from one business to another.

20. How do you distinguish core vs. critical apps?
Taking inventory of your current apps requires
administrators to be aware that not every
application in use is known to IT. Additionally,
some applications may be critical to a particular
function, job or project that is not necessarily core
to the enterprise.

21. FIVE
DATA SECURITY
CONSIDERATIONS
It all comes down to understanding what
responsibilities are outsourced to a cloud
vendor, and what will remain the
responsibility of the organization.

22. Just like all other aspects of hybrid IT, the location you
choose for individual workloads depends on several
factors, including security.
Staying on top of security is an ongoing task, and no single
measure or technique can keep a company’s data secure.
One of the weakest links in any security system is the
human element. People can make mistakes. When
considering your information and security strategy, you
should ensure that there is always a second set of eyes
reviewing all decisions, systems and processes.

23. On-Prem Vs. Cloud Storage: Lessons for Leaders

24. If you are considering building a private cloud, make sure its
strategically critical to your corporate mission.
To move data between an on-premises data center and a
public cloud service, use the same software in both places.
Even after building your own infrastructure, keep in mind
that a public cloud service might offer advantages down the
road. Embrace standards that will enable you to move
applications and data to the cloud should the need arise.
If your private cloud project is a big one, and it probably will
be, strange things can happen. Be prepared to deal with the
unexpected.

25. INVESTING
INTELLIGENTLY
IN HYBRID IT

26. HybridIT@siriuscom.com
Or contact your
Sirius Account Manager
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