Your hybrid cloud strategy has to include a deliberate public cloud approach. Get tips on hybrid and public cloud management, strategy, security, and more.

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From the editor: Hybrid is the future of cloud

    

That’s what recent data indicate, like results from this Forrester Consulting survey. And defining your hybrid cloud strategy has to include a deliberate public cloud approach. This approach might include citizen developers, but you should avoid the worst aspects of shadow IT.

Your public cloud strategy should have unified management capabilities, work for multiple cloud environments, and be flexible enough to support a variety of business models. You also need the freedom to deploy your applications and workloads to the cloud provider of your choice.

Get more hybrid and public cloud guidance in this issue of Red Hat Shares, including tips on management, strategy, security, and more.

Up first: Compare and contrast cloud types.

Choose the right cloud

        

         

6 essential hybrid cloud management features for enterprises

    

These hybrid cloud management features are particularly important to enterprises―and often go beyond what’s included in the cloud infrastructure.

Indispensable ingredients

        

         

“Call it what you will, but hybrid cloud is the future.”

    

LAUREN NELSON, PRINCIPAL ANALYST, FORRESTER RESEARCH

 

Source: Collett, Stacy. “What is hybrid cloud really, and what's the best strategy?” Network World. Ed. Tim Greene. 2018.

        

         

Hybrid cloud strategy for dummies

    

Cloud computing is growing more complex by the day. Get sage advice for developing a carefully thought‐out approach to managing your hybrid cloud environment.

Smart start

       

         

Discover the possibilities of hybrid cloud from Red Hat and Microsoft

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Customer spotlight: Macquarie boosts developer productivity by 50% with public cloud

    

After deploying a public cloud implementation, financial services provider Macquarie cut its software release time from hours to minutes and increased developer productivity by more than 50%.

But wait, there's more

       

         

Public cloud is growing―and private cloud is close behind

    

63% expect their public cloud investments to increase over the next 4 years, vs. 56% expecting to increase their private cloud investments.1

 

“While companies plan to migrate a larger share of their workloads to the cloud, they aren't abandoning on-premises computing. Instead, many are adopting a hybrid IT model...”2

KATY L. HUBERTY, MORGAN STANLEY

 

1. Source: “Hybrid Cloud: An Obvious Reality or a Conservative Strategy?” Forrester Consulting and Red Hat, 2018.
2. Source: Rudder, Carla. “Public cloud: 8 stats to see.” The Enterprisers Project. 2018.

       

         

Hybrid cloud: The IT leader’s guide

    

How are IT leaders using hybrid cloud? What are the keys to hybrid cloud security? How is multicloud different from hybrid cloud? CIOs and cloud experts share answers and advice.

Cloud Q&A

       

         

Crack the cloud open

    

In this episode of the Command Line Heroes podcast, Saron talks to experts about the battle in the clouds and where that leaves open source developers.

A storm is brewing

       

         

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