The increase in cloud service consumption manifests itself in several usage models. Today, many organizations are implementing hybrid cloud, which uses a mix of private clouds, public clouds, and legacy data centers.

As organizations move further into the digital economy,they will increasingly implement new business processes that rely on flexible and secure interaction among multiple cloud environments as well as legacy systems. While cloud computing and use of cloud applications will continue to grow exponentially, companies would brace for challenges that will need to be met as they transition from in-house systems to hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, and public-cloud environments.

Find out how chief among these are dealing with the business and technical issues of security, system integration, compliance, and complexity.