Trends Report

Azure Stack Sparks The Hybrid Cloud Explosion

New Forms Of Hybrid Cloud Are About To Radically Alter The Cloud Landscape

October 30th, 2017
Tracy Woo, Principal Analyst
Tracy Woo Principal Analyst
Lauren Nelson, VP, Research Director
Lauren Nelson VP, Research Director
With contributors:
Glenn O'Donnell , Will McKeon-White , Peggy Dostie

Summary

In practice, hybrid cloud has underdelivered on the vision of enterprise cloud transparency and fluid management of resources. The long-awaited introduction of Microsoft Azure Stack and the competitive countermoves by key competitors Amazon Web Services and Google have transformed the private cloud landscape and will trigger a new gold rush to stake out enterprise hybrid market share. I&O practitioners must understand this huge impending change on the hybrid cloud portability conversation within their larger digital transformation.

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