The proliferation of cloud-based services is not only transforming our society, but it’s redesigning the very fabric of our economy as well. Organizations are observing this pattern globally, and the potential business benefits are clear to them. As a result, cloud computing is rapidly reshaping IT strategy; it is no longer a question of whether services should be migrated to cloud, but which services to migrate first. The Hybrid Cloud IT Model The fact is many organizations will have a mix of on-premises and cloud-based applications. This hybrid cloud IT model, where an organization is running some enterprise IT services on its own systems and utilizing third-party cloud services to meet other business requirements, is either borne of necessity or is part of a broader modernization strategy. On-premises applications can either be custom applications, which may or may not have a cloud migration strategy, or legacy applications that must run.