With hybrid and multicloud environments being the key assets for navigating though digital transformation and macroeconomic crises, European organizations focus now on creating resilient, well-governed and optimized hybrid clouds. But what is the starting point of the hybrid cloud implementation journey?
In this short video, Archana Venkatraman, Research Director at IDC, explains why organizations need to develop an inside-out hybrid cloud control strategy which capitalizes on existing IT operational skills and technologies and extends these in order to cover the entire hybrid cloud operations.

Nearly 80 percent of European companies are adopting a hybrid cloud solution, each being at different stages on their cloud maturity journey. While some are optimizing their infrastructure and building a private cloud, others are reaching out to the public cloud. No matter the stage, the task is always to identify the right cloud for the right workload and implement it in the best possible way.
Craig Parker, Head of Hybrid Cloud Europe at Fujitsu, explains in this short video how Fujitsu engages with customers in order to help them identify, implement, optimize and manage the best possible infrastructure for their workloads.

As the adoption of digital platforms and services grows, so do the needs for better and greater access to data. However, this issue cannot be addressed by a “business as usual, but with bigger boxes” tactic. If each platform or service maintains its own data store or silo, the cost is bound to grow out of control. A modern storage infrastructure requires a new, shared foundation for applications and services where data is not siloed, but can be available to all.
This Buyers Guide by Freeform Dynamics sums up what to consider when planning for modern IT in the hybrid cloud era in order to evaluate the costs and benefits.

In a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), key IT elements such as servers and storage are implemented as software on a shared platform. This allows HCI to offer significant gains over traditional IT in terms of efficiency, consolidation and utilization of resources – the main drivers behind the increasing adoption of HCI technology.
But what is the relevance of HCI for hybrid infrastructures?
As this survey by Freeform Dynamics and Fujitsu shows, both the conceptual similarities between the two as well as the potential for significant cost savings make HCI an ideal foundational technology for hybrid cloud.

Every aspect of our lives increasingly depends on the digital connectivity of people, things, places, and organizations. All this, in turn, depends on a well-managed digital infrastructure that delivers real-world value.
Fujitsu Cloud Managed Services are built around four key objectives: resilience, agility, cost optimization and compliance. Learn how they can help your organization to reduce the complexity of managing a cloud infrastructure efficiently, empower talent within your business, assure governance, and increase business value at each step of your transformation journey.

The implementation of a hybrid-ready on-premises cloud is often hindered by the complex infrastructure already in place. The latter proves too inflexible for this purpose and also too hard to manage and maintain. What is required instead is a next-generation infrastructure and cloud operating model – offering the same operational experience on-premises as with an external cloud service provider.
The Fujitsu Hybrid Cloud Starter Kit for VMware includes everything you need for this: the hardware, software, and services for an agile on-site private cloud platform extendable to the public cloud.