Hybrid cloud infrastructure is evolving rapidly. Businesses are exploring how the new platforms can improve disaster recovery, reduce costs and facilitate the rollout of edge computing, while CIOs struggle with the workload modernization costs required to run more applications in the cloud.

Hybrid cloud tools have new control planes that facilitate better management in the cloud and on premises. Innovations in language-agnostic hybrid cloud tools could further bolster these efforts. CIOs see hybrid cloud’s potential to distribute risks and enable AI and machine learning at scale. AI and automation incorporated in hybrid cloud tools support better monitoring, management, governance and security. These and more trends are directly impacting business operations and shaping the hybrid cloud future.