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DZone > Cloud Zone > Hybrid Cloud Becomes a Strategic Imperative

Hybrid Cloud Becomes a Strategic Imperative

A recent report shows that the cloud, particularly hybrid cloud setups, significantly improve collaboration, business agility, and flexibility.

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Jun. 09, 17 · Cloud Zone · Analysis
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Cloud computing is no longer a decision made solely for tactical reasons like cost savings or ease of implementation. Key strategic business demands — the need for greater business agility, data capabilities, and better customer and user experiences — are compelling companies to embrace cloud systems, according to the Insight-sponsored report by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services.

Respondents are nearly split when it comes to hybrid and private cloud adoption, while total public cloud usage captures only a fraction of the market. Here's the breakdown:

  • 42 percent of respondents use a hybrid approach, with systems hosted in both the public and private clouds.
  • 40 percent of respondents host most of their systems in a private cloud.
  • 13 percent of respondents host most of their systems in the public cloud.

The types of systems most likely to reside in the cloud include:

  • Email and communication tools (54 percent)
  • Billing and invoicing (29 percent)
  • Business intelligence (29 percent)
  • Payroll (26 percent)
  • Customer service (24 percent)
  • Project management (24 percent)

Cloud Improves Company Performance

“A company’s IT environment should work for them by enabling them to both run and innovate. Large and small to mid-sized companies need to focus on managing and modernizing their IT infrastructure, so that it becomes a transformative part of their business that can directly improve results,” said David Lewerke, Director, Hybrid Cloud Consulting Practice at Insight. “While we knew there were a number of benefits, we wanted to better understand from respondents exactly how cloud systems were impacting their business outcomes.”

The benefits of cloud adoption are even more pronounced among small to mid-sized companies:

  Large companies Small to mid-sized companies
Time to market 15 percent 47 percent
Business/revenue/profit growth 17 percent 38 percent
End customer experience 32 percent 48 percent
Ability to manage security 26 percent 39 percent
Ability to mitigate risk 28 percent 39 percent


For all respondents, nearly half (49 percent) say cloud or hybrid cloud systems have significantly improved collaboration, followed by business agility and flexibility (45 percent), their ability to manage, analyze, act on and share data (43 percent) and their ability to empower employees and create a better user experience (42 percent).

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