Today’s infrastructure doesn’t look like yesterday’s. Where once Operations teams built extensive, high-availability data centers, today they extend their capabilities with the elastic storage, compute, and delivery capacity from public cloud services.

Public cloud infrastructure comes at a cost. Not only must Ops teams manage the chaos of departments throughout the organization grabbing new cloud capacity at will, they must ensure that they balance the delivery of excellent experience to each and every user with cost structures that can make or break the profit/loss equation of the whole business.

This white paper examines some of the considerations Ops – and especially the newly minted DevOps – teams must keep in mind as they integrate public cloud services into their hybrid cloud environments.

Hybrid cloud is the new normal – but that doesn’t mean it’s all worked out just yet.