(文章亦同時被 Unwire Pro引用)
我們將用數篇文章，探討企業資訊科技，怎樣提供服務，也就是近年 CIO 們常談及的「IT 即服務（IT-as- a-Service）」。本文是第一篇，先從混合雲(hybrid cloud)開始談起，其後會探討協同 (orchestration)及中介(brokerage)服務。
IBM 在 2013 年提倡「混合雲」一詞，該詞迅速被業界採納，成為行業標準。我們預計現在到未來一段日子，企業對混合雲服務有殷切的需求，而筆者樂意用一些篇幅，解釋這是怎麼一門服務。
No longer do traditional IT services fall solely under the purview of on-premises data centers. Workloads are increasingly being transferred to the cloud in order to meet changing business requirements and achieve greater agility and flexibility.
IDC predicts that more than 80 percent of IT organizations will commit to hybrid architectures this year, according to a recent Forbes report on business resiliency. The same report found that CIOs are being tasked with creating a disaster recovery plan that will serve their organization well in a hybrid cloud environment.
