Hybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organization provides and manages some information technology resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for others. The term hybrid IT is often used interchangeably with the term hybrid cloud. Managing cloud operations across environments from a ‘single pane of glass’ is important or extremely important for 78% of the respondents in India for successful digital initiatives. Despite escalating cyber-attacks, a third of global and Indian respondents do not have security as their top priority.
According to IBM's new global study on cloud transformation, there has been a drastic shift in business needs as only three percent of respondents reported using a single private or public cloud in 2021, down from 29% in 2019 – establishing hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture. The global study, conducted by IBM Institute for Business Value in cooperation with Oxford Economics, surveyed almost 7,200 C-suite executives across 28 industries and 47 countries including 287 executives from India. The findings indicate that the cloud market has entered the hybrid, multicloud era and concerns around vendor lock-in, security, compliance and interoperability remain paramount. The study found:
Cyber threats are at an all-time high
· Infrastructure complexity is creating cracked doors that cybercriminals are exploiting.
Yet, surprisingly more than a third of respondents did not indicate improving cybersecurity and reducing security risks are among their largest business and IT investments.
· At the same time, 80 percent of global & India respondents said data security being embedded throughout the cloud architecture is important or extremely important, in most cases, to successful digital initiatives.
· Security concerns posed as a significant obstacle to improving business performance in some, most or all parts of their cloud estate for 54% of respondents in India.
The report reveals that security, governance and compliance tools must run across multiple clouds and be embedded throughout hybrid cloud architectures from the onset for digital transformations to be successful. As organizations progress on their journey to the cloud, adopting Hybrid, multicloud has become essential and is a clear winner in the race to become the dominant architecture for enterprise cloud estates in India. Indian organizations experience enterprise-scale improvements by harnessing the power of a Hybrid cloud architecture to digitize their existing products and services, enhance customer experience, increase business resiliency and reduce security risks.``
