Cloud Without Compromise: Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise

Many companies claim to have “gone to the cloud,” yet returns from their efforts are meager or worse. Why? Because they’ve defined cloud as a destination, not a capability. Using cloud as a single-vendor, one-stop destination is fiction; in practice, today’s organizations use a mosaic of capabilities across several vendors. Your data strategy needs to follow a hybrid multicloud model, one that delivers cloud’s value at destinations you choose.

This practical guide provides business leaders and C-level executives with guidance and insights across a wide range of cloud-related topics, such as distributed cloud, microservices, and other open source solutions for strengthening operations. You’ll apply in-the-field best practices and lessons learned as you define your hybrid cloud strategy and drive your company’s transformation strategy.

• Learn cloud fundamentals and patterns, including basic concepts and history
• Get a framework for cloud acumen phases to value-plot your cloud future
• Know which questions to ask about a cloud provider before you sign
• Discover potential pitfalls for everything from the true cost of your cloud solution to adopting open source the right way
• See how IBM infrastructure can boost your cloud journey

Table of contents

1. Cloudy Skies Are the Best Forecast Ever
2. Evolution of Cloud
3. “Cloud Chapter 2”: All the Moving Parts
4. Cloud Computing: Patterns for The What, The How, and The Why
5. Shift Left
6. Hackers, Attackers, and Would-Be Bad Actors: Thoughts on Security for Hybrid Cloud
7. Data Gravity
8. Ecosystem for Automation