Many organizations looking to supercharge their digital transformation journey are defaulting to a hybrid cloud deployment model. Hybrid cloud architectures focus less on physical connectivity and more on supporting the portability of workloads across all cloud environments. This portability is driven by Kubernetes as an underlying technology. Enterprises are also focused on automating the deployment of those workloads to the best cloud environment for a given business purpose.
The greatest benefit of a hybrid cloud is that you can choose an optimal solution for each task or workload, whether the solution is traditional IT or cloud native. Organizations gain the greatest value from cloud platforms when they treat their adoption as a business-technology transformation by focusing investments on business domains where cloud can enable increased revenues and improved margins. As Linux and hybrid cloud become the default server deployment architectures for many organizations, these organizations are also looking for morediverse deployment architectures.