This document discusses the challenges of hybrid cloud environments from a business and IT perspective. It notes that hybrid clouds require forecasting consumption across distributed enterprises and maintaining control of data across multiple cloud environments. The evolving role of the CIO is also discussed, with over a third of CIOs expecting cloud technology to have the most impact. Managing data seamlessly across clouds is considered critical. The document promotes NetApp's Data ONTAP operating system as a solution for unified storage and data management across hybrid cloud environments.

1. Hybrid Cloud
T aking The 'Scary' Out of The Cloud
Hybrid Clouds,
Serious Challenges
Hybrid cloud’s challenges, from both a business and IT standpoint:
Business Challenge: IT Challenge:
Consumption forecasting
for a distributed
enterprise
Difficult to maintain
and control data
across multi-cloud
environments
82% Consider the challenges
to be either critical or
very important
CIO Concerns, Role
Evolving role of CIO/IT to meet demands and requirements of hybrid cloud environments:
1/3 More than
of IT leaders–36%–predict cloud
(technology as a service) will have
the most profound impact on the
CIO
Source: State of the CIO Survey (CIO Magazine)
Need For a Common Data
Platform Across Clouds
Challenge of data management and control is the primary
obstacle to more effective utilization of the public cloud
Aspects of control and management that are most difficult:
48% Data Protection 41% Data Governance 35% Access Control
However, There Are Ways to
Overcome the Data
Management Obstacles
Moving from builders to brokers:
Managing workloads across cloud environments
83% Highly important to offer
consistent SLAs across
cloud environments
82% Manage and control data
among multiple private and
public cloud resources
Importance of Ability to Manage Data Seamlessly
Across Multiple Cloud Environments:
Critical
Very Important
Somewhat Important
Not Very Important
Not at all Important
35%
8%
43%
34%
1%
CIOs Consider the Following to be Either Critical or Very Important:
84%
Availability of services and support to be successful
90%
Vendor's ability to address risk factors in deploying clouds
71%
Vendor's ability to enable IT to remain in the driver's seat
72%
Commitment to an openness, including APIs, open source
options and a multi-vendor ecosystem
Business Payoff
Strategic IT is Better IT
The 2014 State of the CIO Survey found the Top CIO Priorities to be:
Grow
Corporate
Revenue
Enable
Customer
Acquisition
& Retention
“Regardless of the ultimate
computing destination…”
“…the CIO will maintain ownership of the organization’s
data. The introduction of new multicloud architectures
makes data governance more complex because data is
distributed, and not under direct control. Our vision is to
create an enterprise data management solution, with the
clustered Data ONTAP® operating system at its core,
which will span the customers’ data storage landscape,
irrespective of data type or location.”
Jay Kidd, Senior Vice President
and Chief Technology Officer, NetApp
Power it All with Data ONTAP
Only clustered Data ONTAP delivers versatility
and data control to help customers connect
any cloud resource through a single storage
and data management platform.
Hyperscale
Cloud Provider
Data
ONTAP Hybrid Cloud
Data ONTAP software will enable dynamic data portability across all clouds and will support
extensive customer choice for application, technology, and cloud partner options.
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Simplify
IT
Lead
Product
Innovation
Efforts
NetApp Data ONTAP:
Unified Storage Architecture
NetApp’s strategy is to use the world’s number-one branded
storage operating system, Data ONTAP, as a universal data
platform across cloud environments.
NetApp’s strategy is to use the
world’s number-one branded
storage operating system
Cloud
Service
Provider
Private
Cloud
175 Already more than 175 cloud
service providers deliver cloud
services built on Data ONTAP.
No.1 IDC has named NetApp Data ONTAP
as the world’s number-one branded
storage operating system
• Scale SAN and NAS to tens of PB without disrupting running appl ications.
• Scale your environment using a common set of features and manag ement tools.
• Consolidate and manage all your data from a single storage syst em.
• Protect your investment, simplify data management, and reduce your TCO.
Saves $3.6 million and accelerates research
with hybrid cloud built on NetApp
The FlexPod solution based on
NetApp and Cisco technologies
helped save us $3.6 million in data
center costs. We’re able to allocate
that budget to world class research
and to providing the educational
programs that can make a
difference in the lives of our
students today and tomorrow Dr. Phil Richards,
IT Director of the University of Loughborough
Customer references
3.6PB of data and 800 virtual servers that
process an average of 14,000 transactions
per second In a rapidly changing business climate, a
solid IT infrastructure and the ability to
offer customers high availability and rapid
turnaround times is crucial. “NetApp
clustered Data ONTAP® has helped us
move toward a true zero-downtime
environment and the ability to scale out
and up, ultimately to offer truly flexible
David Glambruno, solutions for our customers.
Senior Vice President and CIO of Revlon