1) Organizations are seeking hybrid environments combining traditional IT with public, private, and third-party clouds to gain strategic advantages. To succeed, organizations must define objectives, assess current infrastructure, choose applications to migrate, understand hybrid management, and ensure return on investment. 2) System integrators can provide advisory services and comprehensive plans to transform an organization's infrastructure to a hybrid model through strategies addressing business units' needs. 3) Transforming requires carefully planning application and workload migrations, optimizing hybrid operations, and program management to reduce disruption and ensure goals are met.

1. Viewpoint
Getting to your
hybrid future
Use the power of cloud

2. Informed observers agree
• System integrators will be critical in
fulfilling Internet of Things solutions in
various vertical industries and consumer
markets across emerging countries.1
• By 2017, in large organizations, at least
65 percent of new integration flows will
be developed outside the control of IT
departments.2
Table of contents
2 Get the right advice when starting your journey
3 Build your infrastructure successfully
4 Infrastructure transformations
4 Move forward—the time is now
No organization is immune to disruption. To better manage this, organizations are seeking ways
to thrive in their industry by incorporating the strategic power of cloud. The result is a hybrid
environment that enables leveraging the strengths of multiple platforms—the right mix of
traditional IT, and public, private, and third-party clouds. To shift to hybrid, organizations must:
• Define needed business objectives and outcomes
• Assess current state of infrastructure and applications
• Choose which applications and workloads to migrate
• Understand how to manage a hybrid infrastructure
• Ensure a solid return on this evolution
Get the right advice when starting your journey
To develop a good strategy for your journey, a system integrator can provide advisory services
and a comprehensive plan that includes computing devices, mechanical and digital machines,
objects—all a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)—and people to transform your organization and
technology. Such services identify realistic options for transforming your current infrastructure
to an IoT-integrated hybrid infrastructure. The end result is a strategy and plan—with your right
mix—that enables your organization to address unit and departmental needs. Keeping control
inside your IT department helps achieve your specific business objectives and outcomes,
resulting in cost reductions, increased growth, risk management, and needed integration.
Once strategies are agreed on, the next step is creating an executable roadmap to guide
your organization in the transformation of applications and data workloads, infrastructure,
people, and delivery models. The roadmap identifies transformation options and solutions to
address the scope of change needed in each application landing zone—traditional, and private,
managed, and public cloud—to achieve the return on investment business case.
With the roadmap in place, detailed plans can then be developed and coordinated across
geographies and organizational units/departments. In large and medium organizations,
detailed planning and execution require exceptional project management skills and extensive
knowledge of cutting-edge technologies in order to design and implement an effective IoT
integrated hybrid infrastructure architecture.
Your organization must now execute a flawless transformation, so it can quickly begin realizing
the value an agile and innovative infrastructure provides to your business.
Best practice tips when starting your journey include:
• Leverage a proven track record to achieve business outcomes through a deep
understanding of how technologies impact your competitiveness and profitability.
• Engage a deep bench of expertise, processes, and methodologies to connect customers and
organizational units, accelerate transactions and revenues, and deliver new IT services in a
hybrid environment.
• Map the transformation path by analyzing applications and workloads, establishing a
service-management model, and driving return on investment payback.
• Understand complex enterprise applications, such as SAP® and Oracle, and how they
support business processes and interact with technology, IT operations, and cloud options.
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1
“Predicts 2016: Emerging Markets Are
Gaining Momentum in Digital Business and
Innovation,” Gartner, December 2015
2
“Unleash DIY Citizen Integration to Enable Digital
Business Transformation,” Gartner, January 2016
Hybrid Transformation Journey
Hybrid is your reality. Are you ready?

3. Build your infrastructure successfully
To minimize potential disruptions, your organization must carefully plan migrating workloads to
the hybrid environment. Additionally, program management techniques must be transparent to
ensure executive support and deployment timing and budgets.
Orchestration and scalable IT service delivery are also crucial to creating an IoT integrated
hybrid approach for your traditional IT, and private and public clouds. Robust transformations
enable organizations to support customers and users, and meet their strategic business
objectives during transformation.
Best practice tips when executing your transformation:
• Tools enable quick transformation with the right expertise—Minimize risk and speed execution.
• Optimize hybrid IT operations—Provide a modified operating model to support operating in
a hybrid environment; leverage processes, methodologies, and automation for infrastructure
design and implementation.
• Program management teams—Oversee transformations, providing governance to reduce
disruption, accelerate the process, and ensure user and customer satisfaction.
Delivery model transformations
One of the secrets to success is finding the right mix of infrastructure to match your unique
application and infrastructure requirements. Gartner defines two infrastructure modes: “One
mode (Mode 1) is focused on stability and continuous improvement to business-as-usual, where
there continues to be change and a need for renovation, but there is greater predictability.
The other mode (Mode 2) is focused on agility, enabling the organization to trigger as well as
respond to disruptions (aka business-as-unusual), where there is significant uncertainty related
to the underlying business model, value proposition, customer requirements, technology,
partners and so on.”3
For a hybrid infrastructure, organizations must understand and support both modes, and have
a solid grasp on how their people, processes, and functions must change to support them.
Applications transformations
An effective application and transformation program is key to adapting applications to the
emerging cloud environment. Complex application portfolios, legacy infrastructure, and poor
governance all hamper organizations’ ability to change and innovate. Changing to be a more
agile and cost-effective organization requires business models and IT structures that support
change and innovation. A multistep advisory process is recommended:
• Build awareness and understanding in the organization
• Assess the applications portfolio in the hybrid context
• Build a business case and roadmap to ensure quick wins
The transformation process executes the plan to achieve the desired future state, delivering
applications to the right infrastructure “landing zone” destinations.
“By 2016, 70 percent of digital business initiatives will have failed to deliver business growth due
to lack of business model innovation, effective big change techniques, organizational liquidity,
and process adaptability.”4
3
“Maturing Bimodal: Five Best Practices
to Ease Transitions Between Mode 2 and
Mode 1,” Gartner, February 2016
4
“Market Guide for Digital Business Consulting
Services,” Gartner, June 2015
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Five key ways to start your journey
• Executive conversations to align with
key business issues and outcomes
• Workshops and innovation sessions to
build consensus to proceed
• Demos and trials to show the “art of the
possible”
• Assessments and analysis to create a
fact-based picture of your current state
• Roadmaps to provide high-level plans
and business cases to move from
current to future state
Three key transformation areas
• Delivery model transformations—
Design and roll out people, processes,
and organization changes to efficiently
and effectively deliver cloud-enabled
services.
• Applications transformations—Move
applications from current state to
desired future state: re-host, re-factor,
re-architect, retire, replace.
• Infrastructure transformations—
Transform the traditional infrastructure
and establish appropriate cloud
environments—private, managed, public.

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Infrastructure transformations
Workloads
Given the complexity of the hybrid IT environment, you should start with advisory services to
define precisely what hybrid means to you by looking at these key areas:
• Infrastructure
• Data
• Landing zones
• Potential service providers
Next, choose which workloads to migrate, learn how to manage the new hybrid environment,
and ensure transformation delivers the promised return on investment. Establishing a cloud
brokerage service model is recommended to help users research hybrid opportunities, order
and get approval, and manage cloud and workload resources.
Continuity
As organizations move to a hybrid infrastructure—traditional IT, and public, private, and third-
party clouds—it becomes important to expand your continuity to protect your whole hybrid
infrastructure. And it’s not just against natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes, but also
against more common issues such as power outages, software failures, and hacking attacks.
A hybrid architecture presents unique continuity opportunities requiring various recovery
capabilities. To ensure seamless performance in a hybrid environment, a unified lifecycle
approach to business continuity is recommended.
Move forward—the time is now
Leverage the strengths of multiple infrastructures in a hybrid environment. Get the right mix for
a competitive edge. All will allow you to thrive in your industry.
Learn more at
hpe.com/solutions/transform-hybrid
hpe-enterpriseforward.com/hybrid
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