Cloud has spread like wildfire through the majority of businesses. Its flexibility, scalability and price-point often makes it the natural data storage solution.
With cloud follows the notion of a ‘hybrid cloud strategy’, and whether the IT manager recognises it or not, the business probably has one. Take for example, a company that is slowly moving applications out of the data centre and chooses SaaS applications where possible – the business may not consider this a ‘formal’ hybrid cloud strategy but, like it or not, it is.
