Hybrid cloud adoption is on the rise because of benefits like cost, functionality, and availability—but we recommend an open hybrid cloud approach because of the interoperability, workload portability, and flexibility it brings to hybrid environments.

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In this issue: Open hybrid cloud

  • Building a better hybrid cloud
  • FEATURED Digital transformation—brought to you by open hybrid cloud
  • Survey says: The State of the Cloud Report
  • Customer spotlight: KeyBank goes cloud-native, builds a DevOps practice
  • More to learn: Choose the right mix of hybrid cloud management for your enterprise | Podcast: Open source and cloud trends with IDC's Al Gillen | Cloud management – why it matters
  • Recommended | Red Hat news and more | Related events
 

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From the editor

Building a better hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud adoption is on the rise because of benefits like cost, functionality, and availability (remember last month's Amazon Web Services S3 outage?). But we recommend going a step further: Open hybrid cloud adds the interoperability, workload portability, and flexibility of open source to your hybrid environment.

Ultimately, an open hybrid cloud approach brings cloud benefits to more of your IT infrastructure, applications, and users. This month, explore how open hybrid cloud is influencing IT trends and helping businesses, and get advice for navigating your hybrid cloud journey.


Featured story

Digital transformation—brought to you by open hybrid cloud

Digital transformation is, in part, about making new and better applications. And new apps need a modern platform with new capabilities. Changes in how apps are designed, developed, and deployed come together through an open hybrid cloud strategy.

CHANGE IS GOOD


Survey says

The State of the Cloud Report

More than 1,000 respondents from businesses of many sizes took part in this 2017 survey about cloud infrastructure adoption.

  • 85% of enterprises have a multicloud strategy.
  • 67 of workloads are run in hybrid clouds.
  • 50% of central IT teams consider using hybrid cloud their top priority.
  • 53% say optimizing cloud costs is their top initiative.

Source: "State of the Cloud Report," RightScale. January, 2017.

Customer spotlight

KeyBank goes cloud-native, builds a DevOps practice

KeyBank’s new DevOps team is using the first and only container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from the Docker, Kubernetes, Project Atomic, and OpenShift Origin upstream projects. Now integrated with the organization's automated testing, KeyBank's new application platform helps its teams solve 60% of defects within a day.

HOW'D THEY DO IT?


More to learn

Choose the right mix of hybrid cloud management for your enterprise

Get some guidelines for choosing the right hybrid cloud management tool based on your use case and team's expertise.

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

Podcast: Open source and cloud trends with IDC's Al Gillen

IDC open source leader Al Gillen cites historical context to explain current open source, cloud, digital transformation, and DevOps trends.

OPEN CONVERSATION

Cloud management – why it matters

Learn what cloud management is and why it’s vital for enterprises operating large, complex cloud environments.

SIMPLE IS BETTER


Red Hat Summit 2017

This year's theme: You.

Red Hat® Summit 2017 will celebrate the individual: doers, explorers, builders, and dreamers. Because without you, enterprises don’t run and innovation can’t happen.

With nearly 300 sessions and hands-on labs, expect to hear about popular industry topics like DevOps, security, hybrid cloud, containers, and much more.

SHOW ME THE SESSIONS


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