11. The Hybrid IT, the Characteristics and Capabilities

With the faster adoption of the cloud idea across industry verticals with all the elegance and the enthusiasm, the traditional IT is bound to enlarge its prospects and potentials. Thatis, the IT capabilities and capacities are being enhanced with the seamless and spontaneous association with the cloud paradigm in order to meet up fast-emerging and evolving business requirements. This is a kind of new IT getting enormous attention and garnering a lot of attraction among business executives and IT professionals lately. The systematic amalgamation of the cloud concepts with the time-tested and trusted enterprise IT environment is to deliver a bevy of significant advantages for business houses in the days ahead. This model of next-generation computing through the cognitive and collective leverage of enterprise and cloud IT environments is being touted as the hybrid IT. There are a variety of technologies and tools expressly enabling the faster realization of hybrid era. This chapter is specially crafted for digging deep and describing the various implications of the hybrid IT.