IDC presents the key trends, market needs, challenges, connectivity requirements and infrastructure management expectations that enterprise IT executives need to examine for managing on-premise & cloud hosted requirements as enterprises embark on their digital transformation in a dynamic cloud-connected world. We will examine the important role of managed network services in a hybrid IT environment that includes the diverse connectivity requirements to support public and private cloud, existing legacy hosted applications, and new on demand, software-defined services such as SD-WAN.