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Home » Schneider Electric And 451 Research Deliver Hybrid IT Management Insights
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Schneider Electric And 451 Research Deliver Hybrid IT Management Insights

Findings identified through intensive, in-depth interviews of infrastructure leaders at large global enterprises.

November 16, 2017
KEYWORDS 451 Research / colocation services / data centers
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Schneider Electric has announced findings from a newly commissioned 451 Research study that sheds light on hybrid IT environments at large enterprises from across the globe.

The research was conducted through intensive, in-depth interviews with C-suite, data center, and IT executives and offers peer lessons and perspectives into innovative technology deployments others in the industry can use to evaluate and manage their own hybrid landscapes. Key takeaways from the interviews include:

The widespread adoption of cloud services has significantly impacted the way companies are meeting their data center infrastructure requirements.

These complexities will be compounded by an anticipated groundswell of new distributed IT driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and emerging edge computing workloads.

The shift towards a hybrid data center environment that consists of a mix of ‘off-premises’ services, public cloud, and colocation and privately owned ‘on-premises’ data centers is challenging traditional infrastructure management and oversight methodologies.

The deployment of cloud services creates ripple effects across the organization. There is a significant shift in business models, while greater demand is placed on connectivity and workload management. Realizing the full value of a hybrid approach has become one of the most complex issues for modern enterprise leaders, forcing them to reconsider strategy and common practice.

The study also reveals that while the experiences, strategies and innovative technologies used to manage hybrid IT environments varied greatly, there were clear common themes: Choosing the location of data center capacity greatly affected risk, cost, and IT service performance on a workload-by-workload basis.

In one use case, a U.K.-based retailer found that when determining the best venue, security, performance and latency requirements needed to also be factored into the total cost analysis, along with data transit and application license costs. These vectors combined helped to determine the right mix of colocation and public cloud computing infrastructure to support connectivity needs while also controlling costs.

Driving visibility across hybrid environments: Driving visibility across multiple sites is a key challenge. The process is time consuming and expensive, with monitoring hindered by siloed software capabilities and availability of consistent data.

As one study participant noted, “If I had my dream, we would have the visibility to predict failures before they occur.”

Managing costs without sacrificing performance: Without proper research and planning, hybrid data center costs can be high, but with the right plan, it is possible to reduce data center capital and operating costs while maintaining or improving high levels of availability across hybrid environments.

“The biggest challenge of all is cost control, and management and financial applicability of capitalization,” noted one U.S. retailer.

Unifying operational procedures across hybrid IT environments: Developing strict operational processes and ensuring that these requirements are part of SLAs and operations-level agreements (OLAs) with colocation and cloud service providers is crucial.

As one study participant advised, “You have to know [off-premises] is not going to be cheaper…and you lose a huge amount of control. To gain some of that control back, all you can rely on are your SLAs and OLAs.”

The study involved companies generating over $500 million USD in revenue across the U.S., U.K. and Asia Pacific. The complete report includes in-depth analysis of these topics and additional insights into why and how these trends are emerging across multiple verticals and industries.

To access the complete report, Six Real-World Approaches to Managing Hybrid IT Environments, click here.

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