For modern businesses seeking to stay competitive while keeping costs low, the IT environment of choice is likely to be hybrid — a combination of on-premises and cloud services. By using a diverse mix of services from several cloud providers alongside in-house systems, IT departments are able to build the right blend of infrastructure elements to suit their company's individual needs and manage business processes in the most efficient way possible.
IT teams would be forgiven for thinking the price of this best-of-breed hybrid approach is greater complexity, but it doesn't have to be.