Striking the right balance with Hybrid IT

Singapore

IN ORDER to meet the demands of today's complex business and IT landscape, chief information officers (CIOs) and IT directors should consider using multiple platforms and deployment models while at the same time developing a cohesive plan for managing their IT environment.

CenturyLink's Chris Levanes said that this often requires more than a hybrid cloud or public cloud strategy. It requires something that he calls a "Hybrid IT" strategy.

US-based CenturyLink is a US$18 billion global IT solutions provider that offers customers data centre colocation, public and private cloud services, managed services, and network.

Mr Levanes, who is CenturyLink's Asia-Pacific director of cloud and managed hosting, noted that customers are increasingly deploying Hybrid IT infrastructures to rea…