Leveraging the power of hybrid cloud services is increasingly becoming the means of helping enterprise both navigate their way to using cloud as well as ensuring continuous operations and access to innovation.

This IDC white paper examines and highlights key enterprise needs and requirements in utilizing hybrid cloud services, which spans both the transformation to cloud and continuous management of cloud environments (both private and public), as well as critical challenges in utilizing these types of services. This paper will also provide IBM’s hybrid cloud services strategy and framework that is anchored on the value proposition of Choice with Consistency.