The debate is settled that a hybrid cloud approach is the right strategic choice for established businesses.
However, while hybrid cloud adoption may be of the essence, clients continue to seek to derive business value and higher return on investment (ROI) from their investments. According to a study conducted by HFS Research in partnership with IBM Consulting®, only 25% of companies surveyed reported a solid ROI on business results from their cloud transformation efforts.
The lack of ROI progress can be attributed to several factors, including slow adoption, unrealized use cases, and unaddressed cloud sprawl. This is further exacerbated by the growing challenges of platform scaling, skills acquisition, cybersecurity, and explosive growth in data volumes.
Companies looking to derive value from business outcomes and harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) through investments in the cloud must take an intentional approach.
IBM provides clear guidance to help you meet these challenges and achieve better business outcomes. Adopting a hybrid-by-design strategy allows organizations to align architectural choices with business priorities across technology, platforms, processes, and people, resulting in significantly better outcomes and increased ROI.
IBM's latest paper, titled “Maximizing the Value of Hybrid Cloud in the Age of Generative AI,” provides clarity for enterprises looking to optimize their hybrid cloud architecture and expand the impact of generative AI. Offers.
What does a hybrid-by-design approach involve?
Many organizations adopt the cloud in isolated areas for immediate benefits, but don't apply the technology consistently across their operations. This complexity and inconsistency increases costs and prevents companies from achieving their requirements, goals, and outcomes. We believe this is the default approach that characterizes most companies today.
Companies need to realign their transformation programs to more closely align with business imperatives and outcomes. They also need to recognize how Gen AI can amplify the value of hybrid cloud and accelerate digital transformation.
A hybrid-by-design approach intentionally builds hybrid multicloud IT assets to achieve key business priorities and maximize ROI. Organizations can move from technology that defines business limitations to a purpose-built architecture that can accommodate an evolving technology environment, new business and customer demands, and new process and skill requirements. By making intentional and consistent architectural decisions based on an organization's key business objectives, organizations can fully leverage hybrid cloud and artificial AI to drive business outcomes.
IBM has created a codified framework that enables our clients to strategically focus on decisions that deliver the greatest business results, driving a hybrid-by-design approach. This framework makes it easy to translate business priorities into key architectural decisions.
We implement this framework by aligning a set of decision points and business objectives across three areas: Product Native by Design, Technology by Design, and Integration by Design. These domains also include various design points. Depending on the company's situation, different levels of functionality are required to address and achieve business goals. This value framework helps you understand these decision points.
Why is this important for businesses in an AI-centric world?
Gen AI plays a critical role in shaping the digital enterprise and helps businesses maximize return on their IT investments. However, there are challenges to large-scale adoption and deployment of Gen AI. Enterprises need to manage massive amounts of data, significant computing power, and advanced security architectures across distributed environments and ensure rapid scalability.
A purposeful and consistent hybrid architecture design can help enterprises overcome these challenges and facilitate successful adoption and scalability of Gen AI capabilities to meet business needs.
Current pilots and deployments prove that scaling generational AI adoption to meet business needs requires a hybrid approach by design. Gen AI accelerates hybrid cloud execution and value by increasing automation with observability, improving cost optimization with automated insights, and increasing security with compliance across hybrid platforms.
Applying intentional architectural decisions based on business needs amplifies the value of hybrid cloud and AI to drive business outcomes.
Want to learn more? Connect with IBM's hybrid cloud and AI team.
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