Companies are looking for the scale and flexibility of public cloud, but are concerned about losing control of resources outside of their four walls. This is causing organizations to embrace a hybrid cloud model, where they can more easily manage some resources in-house, while also using other applications externally as a service. But bridging these two worlds of internal and external services while keeping a handle on security, resource provisioning and application integration is a massive challenge.

This presentation transcript defines the key challenges of managing IT resources in a hybrid cloud model and some ways to overcome them.