The case for the hybrid cloud has never been stronger, because enterprise computing environments are more complex than ever. As technology vendors try to capitalize on the hybrid cloud opportunity, they’re finding that one way to bring order to the chaos is to better understand the emerging customer archetypes in this fast-evolving, strategically important sector.

Despite the accelerating shift to the public cloud, data will continue to be spread across on-premise and public cloud infrastructure for the next few years, and demand for interoperability is skyrocketing The bottom line is most companies need some sort of hybrid solution.

Part of the challenge is that the lack of a standard hybrid cloud-adoption model has led some companies down misguided paths. We believe that two dimensions can help outline the emerging models: the complexity of the company’s on-premise and public cloud environments, and the level of interoperability across these two environments. For example, how many public clouds is the company using, and what percentage of its computing resources is running on public cloud servers? Do the two environments operate in silos, or are they managed through a single pane of (virtual) glass?

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