Hybrid IT wasn’t planned. It has arisen to challenge the orthodoxy of standardization in the IT organization, as businesses have shifted to competing in the digital economy. IT organizations have been caught flat-footed as they see a need to protect the traditional technology that runs core business processes, yet they also realize that the shift to the cloud is going to continue unabated for the foreseeable future.
Clouds can have silver linings, though, as challenges also present opportunities.
