Cloud readiness assessments allow enterprises to identify the current skills and strengths of your IT staff, as well as any gaps in training or identify areas that could improve in with aspects of efficiency. For cloud service providers, a commitment to understand how your environment operates and how the people operate is of top priority, since a fully operational migration could be stunted by not carefully heeding attention to these aspects. For a migration to be truthfully successful and ready, utilizing the benefits of cloud requires you to guide them through the change.

The momentum that led traditional data centers toward a hybrid data center emerged slowly, due to decades long data center evolutionary processes. When data centers evolved and lead to client-server computing, convergence, and automation, data centers needed to expand in capabilities as well as use the power of the cloud for these services. A hybrid datacenter was developed over time to meet the increasing needs of traditional IT infrastructures to access benefits of agility, scalability, and reach - thus many organizations are adopting or plan to adopt a hybrid infrastructure in the future. A hybrid infrastructure, apart from these advantages, also provide a more manageable service, allowing IT teams peace of mind when it comes to managing their company’s datacenters. A hybrid datacenter consists of a private cloud data center, along with ready-made IT infrastructure resources (applications, compute, storage, networking). It also consists of aspects of a public cloud offering to attach its benefits.