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Getting to your hybrid futureUse the power of cloud

Informed observers agree• System integrators will be critical in

fulfilling Internet of Things solutions in various vertical industries and consumer markets across emerging countries.1

• By 2017, in large organizations, at least 65 percent of new integration flows will be developed outside the control of IT departments.2

Table of contents2 Get the right advice when starting your journey3 Build your infrastructure successfully4 Infrastructure transformations4 Move forward—the time is now

No organization is immune to disruption. To better manage this, organizations are seeking ways to thrive in their industry by incorporating the strategic power of cloud. The result is a hybrid environment that enables leveraging the strengths of multiple platforms—the right mix of traditional IT, and public, private, and third-party clouds. To shift to hybrid, organizations must:

• Define needed business objectives and outcomes

• Assess current state of infrastructure and applications

• Choose which applications and workloads to migrate

• Understand how to manage a hybrid infrastructure

• Ensure a solid return on this evolution

Get the right advice when starting your journey

To develop a good strategy for your journey, a system integrator can provide advisory services and a comprehensive plan that includes computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects—all a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)—and people to transform your organization and technology. Such services identify realistic options for transforming your current infrastructure to an IoT-integrated hybrid infrastructure. The end result is a strategy and plan—with your right mix—that enables your organization to address unit and departmental needs. Keeping control inside your IT department helps achieve your specific business objectives and outcomes, resulting in cost reductions, increased growth, risk management, and needed integration.

Once strategies are agreed on, the next step is creating an executable roadmap to guide your organization in the transformation of applications and data workloads, infrastructure, people, and delivery models. The roadmap identifies transformation options and solutions to address the scope of change needed in each application landing zone—traditional, and private, managed, and public cloud—to achieve the return on investment business case.

With the roadmap in place, detailed plans can then be developed and coordinated across geographies and organizational units/departments. In large and medium organizations, detailed planning and execution require exceptional project management skills and extensive knowledge of cutting-edge technologies in order to design and implement an effective IoT integrated hybrid infrastructure architecture.

Your organization must now execute a flawless transformation, so it can quickly begin realizing the value an agile and innovative infrastructure provides to your business.

Best practice tips when starting your journey include:

• Leverage a proven track record to achieve business outcomes through a deep understanding of how technologies impact your competitiveness and profitability.

• Engage a deep bench of expertise, processes, and methodologies to connect customers and organizational units, accelerate transactions and revenues, and deliver new IT services in a hybrid environment.

• Map the transformation path by analyzing applications and workloads, establishing a service-management model, and driving return on investment payback.

• Understand complex enterprise applications, such as SAP® and Oracle, and how they support business processes and interact with technology, IT operations, and cloud options.

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1 “Predicts 2016: Emerging Markets Are Gaining Momentum in Digital Business and Innovation,” Gartner, December 2015

2 “Unleash DIY Citizen Integration to Enable Digital Business Transformation,” Gartner, January 2016

Hybrid Transformation JourneyHybrid is your reality. Are you ready?

Build your infrastructure successfully

To minimize potential disruptions, your organization must carefully plan migrating workloads to the hybrid environment. Additionally, program management techniques must be transparent to ensure executive support and deployment timing and budgets.

Orchestration and scalable IT service delivery are also crucial to creating an IoT integrated hybrid approach for your traditional IT, and private and public clouds. Robust transformations enable organizations to support customers and users, and meet their strategic business objectives during transformation.

Best practice tips when executing your transformation:• Tools enable quick transformation with the right expertise—Minimize risk and speed execution.

• Optimize hybrid IT operations—Provide a modified operating model to support operating in a hybrid environment; leverage processes, methodologies, and automation for infrastructure design and implementation.

• Program management teams—Oversee transformations, providing governance to reduce disruption, accelerate the process, and ensure user and customer satisfaction.

Delivery model transformationsOne of the secrets to success is finding the right mix of infrastructure to match your unique application and infrastructure requirements. Gartner defines two infrastructure modes: “One mode (Mode 1) is focused on stability and continuous improvement to business-as-usual, where there continues to be change and a need for renovation, but there is greater predictability. The other mode (Mode 2) is focused on agility, enabling the organization to trigger as well as respond to disruptions (aka business-as-unusual), where there is significant uncertainty related to the underlying business model, value proposition, customer requirements, technology, partners and so on.”3

For a hybrid infrastructure, organizations must understand and support both modes, and have a solid grasp on how their people, processes, and functions must change to support them.

Applications transformationsAn effective application and transformation program is key to adapting applications to the emerging cloud environment. Complex application portfolios, legacy infrastructure, and poor governance all hamper organizations’ ability to change and innovate. Changing to be a more agile and cost-effective organization requires business models and IT structures that support change and innovation. A multistep advisory process is recommended:

• Build awareness and understanding in the organization

• Assess the applications portfolio in the hybrid context

• Build a business case and roadmap to ensure quick wins

The transformation process executes the plan to achieve the desired future state, delivering applications to the right infrastructure “landing zone” destinations.

“By 2016, 70 percent of digital business initiatives will have failed to deliver business growth due to lack of business model innovation, effective big change techniques, organizational liquidity, and process adaptability.”4

3 “Maturing Bimodal: Five Best Practices to Ease Transitions Between Mode 2 and Mode 1,” Gartner, February 2016

4 “Market Guide for Digital Business Consulting Services,” Gartner, June 2015

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Five key ways to start your journey• Executive conversations to align with

key business issues and outcomes

• Workshops and innovation sessions to build consensus to proceed

• Demos and trials to show the “art of the possible”

• Assessments and analysis to create a fact-based picture of your current state

• Roadmaps to provide high-level plans and business cases to move from current to future state

Three key transformation areas• Delivery model transformations—

Design and roll out people, processes, and organization changes to efficiently and effectively deliver cloud-enabled services.

• Applications transformations—Move applications from current state to desired future state: re-host, re-factor, re-architect, retire, replace.

• Infrastructure transformations—Transform the traditional infrastructure and establish appropriate cloud environments—private, managed, public.

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Infrastructure transformations

WorkloadsGiven the complexity of the hybrid IT environment, you should start with advisory services to define precisely what hybrid means to you by looking at these key areas:

• Infrastructure

• Data

• Landing zones

• Potential service providers

Next, choose which workloads to migrate, learn how to manage the new hybrid environment, and ensure transformation delivers the promised return on investment. Establishing a cloud brokerage service model is recommended to help users research hybrid opportunities, order and get approval, and manage cloud and workload resources.

ContinuityAs organizations move to a hybrid infrastructure—traditional IT, and public, private, and third-party clouds—it becomes important to expand your continuity to protect your whole hybrid infrastructure. And it’s not just against natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes, but also against more common issues such as power outages, software failures, and hacking attacks.

A hybrid architecture presents unique continuity opportunities requiring various recovery capabilities. To ensure seamless performance in a hybrid environment, a unified lifecycle approach to business continuity is recommended.

Move forward—the time is now

Leverage the strengths of multiple infrastructures in a hybrid environment. Get the right mix for a competitive edge. All will allow you to thrive in your industry.

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