Hybrid cloud adoption has become standard practice among most enterprises looking for flexibility, efficiency and agility. This means organizations need to understand best practices and take advantage of exciting new tools to ensure proper management of data at rest, in flight or in the cloud. This paper looks at the critical role data management plays in aiding organizations’ deployment and optimization of hybrid cloud.

Anyone searching for signs of the increasing adoption of hybrid cloud architectures doesn’t have far to look. Research indicates that hybrid cloud expenditures will surge by nearly 19% annually over a five-year period, reaching $128 billion by 2025.1 IDC says that 70% of enterprises will integrate their multiple clouds and on-premises environments into a hybrid cloud architecture by 2022,2 and TechTarget research notes that hybrid cloud this year is the second-most-utilized infrastructure deployment method.

Of course, a key driver in the adoption of hybrid cloud is organizations’ desire to have the right data in the right place at the right time for both operational agility and economic efficiency. It is the massive growth in data volumes and the intensive demands for easy, efficient access to data across a variety of workloads and locations that is a primary force behind hybrid cloud adoption.