Our world has changed over the past three years. We've seen enterprises reap the rewards in allowing people to work more flexibly. Hybrid work has been embraced, while the way companies communicate with, and offer services to their customers is evolving fast. The result is that hybrid cloud has become the new normal and is the go-to IT infrastructure for every business. According to a recent global survey sponsored by Cisco, 82% of respondents currently use hybrid IaaS cloud infrastructure to host their workloads (Source: 2022 Cisco Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report). In this blog I will explain why hybrid cloud brings benefits to enterprises.

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New experiences such as 8K ultra-high-definition video streaming, immersive VR (virtual reality) and AR (alternative reality), self-driving vehicles, and high frequency stock trading are becoming mainstream. Organizations are using multiple public clouds as they develop these applications. 92% of organizations surveyed use more than one public cloud. In response to growing complexity enterprises are also looking to embrace more automation and tools powered by AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning).

New infrastructure is needed to deliver these types of experiences, with organizations adopting hybrid cloud and multicloud models to attain cloud networking benefits.

Why a hybrid cloud approach brings benefits to enterprises but also new challenges

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