This document discusses strategies for hybrid cloud environments. It begins by outlining the benefits of hybrid clouds, such as balancing costs, speed, scale, security and control between on-premise and third-party cloud resources. It then discusses elements needed to implement hybrid clouds successfully, such as application integration, an intercloud fabric, and consistent security policies across environments. Finally, it proposes starting with use cases and application requirements, building a secure software-defined private cloud foundation, and focusing on application portability and orchestration across platforms.