Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.

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We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that converged infrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.

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Cloud computing risks vary, dependent in part on whether the cloud is public, private or a hybrid and whether it includes the software, hardware or total infrastructure.

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It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

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Cloud users stand to benefit much more from cloud computing as the maturity of their usage increases, particularly with hybrid clouds.

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