5 Conversations IT Needs to Have with C-Level Peers

Rethink the Company's Data Center Strategy 

An effective way to get alignment on your data center strategy is to explain how hybrid IT approaches will allow you to bridge your prior investments (i.e., on-site infrastructure and co-location assets, sunk-licenses and hardware cost, etc.) with the goal of increasing agility and time to market through new solutions. Business leaders need to understand the differences between public cloud, private cloud and managed services, and how a hybrid strategy will provide an immediate path forward for your company. By having business leaders in the conversation, you can make smart choices on which services should be used today. After workloads that are critical to achieving agility and speed are migrated to the cloud, you can look at investing in your remaining workloads and managing your internal data center a different way. Leveraging managed services or co-location is an important part of any hybrid IT environment. And using a mix of services to create hybrid environments allows the IT organization to focus less energy on operations and more on what matters most: creating winning solutions for your business partners and customers.