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Many organizations today have adopted a cloud first strategy aimed to take advantage of on-demand agility, cloud-based elasticity, and charges for services based on actual use. But public cloud is not a one-size-fits-all infrastructure. All too often, IT leaders adopt this strategy to enable innovation, only later to realize the overwhelming cost and complexity of managing a disparate collection of clouds. The fact is, while it’s easy to see the promise of agility and sky’s-the-limit elasticity in hybrid cloud, the day-to-day reality can be very different.
In most cases, public and private clouds have to be managed separately, and the different policies, APIs, and portals make that extremely difficult for IT teams. Cloud lock-ins that restrict resource usage, inconsistent data services that require application refactoring, and the inability to move data freely across clouds, all serve to exacerbate the management challenges. Complex, fragmented infrastru