Don’t Be Fooled By Import Tools Disguised as Hybrid Cloud Management

The biggest part of my job is speaking with end user organizations and understanding their greatest current and future challenges. Oftentimes I hear about workloads that are initially developed on a particular cloud provider’s infrastructure that cannot be redeployed or migrated anywhere else. To be clear, nothing is technically impossible. It’s always a matter of the migration costs outweighing the benefits. Many times organizations want to move workloads developed in a public cloud to their private cloud for reasons such as security, compliance or lowering costs. In other cases, service stacks may need to be distributed globally to 40 or more countries and rebuilding those stacks on various infrastructures can cost millions. The bottom line – the organizations that I speak with daily are demanding the following with respect to their hybrid cloud strategies: Flexibility and choice – Today’s platform decision may not be the best option in two years, or perhaps even in a few months. Organizations want choice, and they don