July 20168 "I probably shouldn't be making any new resolutions this year...mainly because I'm still working on the ones from last year" this dilemma aptly sums up mind of every senior IT executive today. While each year places a new demand on them, they never get to start the year on a clean slate. They're caught between modernizing core legacy systems to support business while enabling growth through new off-premises technologies (such as Cloud), needing to embrace the new, and capitalizing the old. How could do they do this effectively? By adopting to the new world of "Hybrid IT". This new world allows them to maintain control on applications & data in their own four walls, yet take advantage of innovation in marketplace ­ and this world is here to stay. In fact, embracing this approach has clear benefits. A 2015 research of McKinsey's Organizational Health Index showed that companies with both speed and stability have a 70 percent chance of being ranked in the top quartile by organizational health. What does IT need to do to conquer and effectively operate in this new world? What skills are required to master it? Hera are a few tips:Find your balance: The journey to Hybrid IT begins with architecting end state IT design for your company. This requires defining key business rules around what applications & data are to be placed where. This is governed by key criteria such IN MY VIEWHYBRID IT: GET BEST OFBOTH WORLDS By Prasad Kale, Director APJ Cloud Customer Success Manager, Hewlett Packard EnterpriseInformation and Technology Solutions based company; Hewlett Packard Enterprise is headquartered in US and has global presence all over Asia Pacific, Middle-East and Europe. The company has been providing solutions with regard to Cloud, Security, Big Data, Mobility, Infrastructure and Internet of Things.as performance, cost, security & agility. Typically mission critical systems are best left on-premises, while the "edge" applications ­ typically mobile apps, web based applications are placed in the public cloud to leverage advantages of flexibility & innovation. This is not a one-time exercise &the mix will also differ by industry. A hidden benefit of doing this exercise is that it forces a Business-IT dialog about value of each application & how it relates to business processes. This further allows IT to consider strategies to consolidate or retire applications, apart from selecting the right destination, working along with business units.Drive to the right balance: The next task is to accelerate your IT towards this optimum balance. This means doing two things at once: firstly, modernizing your on-premises platform for enable application stability, automation & agility. Secondly, consuming off-premises public cloud services to power your rapid application development, and obtain flexible capacity. A critical element of this phase is to architect & implement a hybrid IT management platform for consistently Prasad Kale
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