As global workloads accelerate (160 million today to 596 million by 2030), the need for greater agility and global deployment options have driven public clouds to be increasingly more attractive. Customers view public clouds as a way to gain the flexibility and speed to respond to changing business needs, accelerate innovation and align costs to business requirements by managing upfront expenses, operational support and TCO.

However, in doing so, customers are recognizing the benefit of having their public clouds integrate and work seamlessly with their on-premises infrastructure while taking advantage of their existing teams, skillsets, tools and processes.