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.

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

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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.

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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%.

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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.

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.

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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.

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• The Enterprisers Project: Public cloud security: Follow the Goldilocks principle
• The Enterprisers Project: Public cloud security: 4 myths and realities
• The Enterprisers Project: Hybrid cloud security fundamentals: 4 things to know

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