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.

Why would one want to risk security, time, and effort to source and integrate different services from various providers? The answers to these questions lie in the notion that organizations are willing to adopt best-of-breed applications rather than settle for mediocrity from a single provider in the name of uniformity.

Control rooms are the nucleus of many enterprises, storing all the critical information being transferred through these hubs globally.

Those who make a living forecasting technology adoption pretty much agree the hybrid cloud environment will dominate enterprise IT over the next five years.

DataBank has announced the appointment of William Pratt as vice president, channel and managed services sales.

IBM Services has announced a $325-million agreement with Juniper Networks in which IBM will assist the network technology giant in managing its existing infrastructure, applications, and IT services to help reduce costs and enhance their journey to the cloud.

Equinix, Inc. has announced it is teaming with VMware to offer private connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS via AWS Direct Connect at Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers globally.

Nobody wants to talk about disaster recovery.