Hybrid IT: The Best of All Worlds

The IT world is quickly changing and now, more than ever, the challenge revolves around our ability to adapt to these changes and ever-evolving user demands. So what's at stake?

Most companies cannot keep up with business agility demands using the old, unwieldy IT model of building and operating data centers. With cloud computing, IT consumerization, and the modern requirements around infrastructures and data centers, organizations have had to rethink how they utilize data center and IT services.

Rising customer expectations add pressure to continually enhance the customer experience. And now that IT systems underpin virtually all customer and supply chain interactions, IT solutions must be 100 percent available - even as they meet that demand for extreme agility.

All of this means IT organizations must deliver new business capabilities faster, even as their budgets are being squeezed.

“In this fiercely competitive landscape, many companies don’t even have time to put together detailed business cases before they respond to competitive changes. If you don’t take advantage of the right technologies to move quickly, you will get left behind,” says Elizabeth Shumacker, Vice President, Global Products & Solutions Marketing at CenturyLink Technology Solutions, a global provider of managed services on virtual, dedicated and colocation platforms.

In this white paper from CenturyLink, we learn how the drive to maximize IT agility in support of new business needs (e.g., digital customer experience; big data analysis) while holding down cost is leading many CIOs to re-imagine their core IT infrastructure. They’re outsourcing a growing proportion, utilizing an array of different “hybrid” approaches. This re-imagining enables them to focus more of their resources on delivering business applications instead of managing data centers and day-to-day IT infrastructure updates. Now we’re looking at IT from a hybrid perspective.

Download this whitepaper today to learn why major organizations and CIOs are switching to a hybrid IT services model. Reasons include:

Remember, your platform will only continue to change and evolve. Through it all, the direct correlation between your IT capabilities and your business demands is what will allow you to out-compute and out-compete. It’s in these cases that working with the right data center and colocation provider can make all the difference.