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Infographic, sponsored by Check Point | December 2023

Hybrid Cloud Datacenters Achieve Resiliency,

Security, and Consolidation TOP PRIORITIES FOR MODERN DATACENTERS

Resiliency (and Availability)

Security: Cloud and On-Premises Security

Priorities Converge

E�ciency: Hybrid Cloud Is Also About Being More E�cient

Attackers Exploit On-Premises and Cloud Tra�c/Apps Equally

Essential Guidance

Unity: Automated Datacenter Security Enables

Agile App Delivery

Philip Bues Research Manager Cloud Security, IDC

Resiliency and availability are cornerstones of an organization's digital transformation (DX) strategy. As businesses think about resiliency and future proofing, how does the hybrid cloud story unfold

across the world?

Within an organization’s security platforms, both cloud workloads

and on-premises datacenters are optimized to deliver low latency, high performance, DevOps agility, operational simplicity, and unified threat visibility.

Enterprises need a systematic, automated process such as DevSecOps to secure the controls that run their businesses in the datacenter and the cloud and

bring together siloed teams.

• Unify hybrid cloud security administration across

on-premises locations and multicloud

• Enable the portability of existing security policies,

rules, definitions, and/or classifications

Cloud Workload Essentials

• Provide security and compliance

• Handle workload and capacity management

Datacenter Essentials

n = 162; Source: IDC’s 2023 Datacenter Operational Survey

n = 400; Source: IDC’s 2022 Cloud Security Survey

Source: IDC’s Datacenter Operations and Management Survey, January 2023

n = 300; Source: IDC’s U.S. DevSecOps Survey, January 2023

Note: Multiple dichotomous table-total will not sum to 100% n = 577; Source: IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, Wave 2, March 2023

n = 400; Source: IDC’s Cloud Security Survey, December 2022

n = 465; Source: IDC’s Datacenter Operations and Management Survey, 2023

They need to ensure control over data.

Their industries are highly regulated, and they must keep all data and workloads on their own equipment.

They can operate more e�ciently than a cloud provider.

They need to ensure control over their business operations.

Which of the following are you currently prioritizing to build a capacity and management strategy?

Overall, which of the following were directly impacted as a result of ransomware attacks your organization faced over the past 12 months?

Roughly how many major security breaches of your Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments has your organization had over the past two years that involved spending significant resources to rectify?

Top DevSecOps Drivers and Challenges

Modernize or expand the datacenter footprint 23%

Decommission on-premises data centers and move resources to a private cloud service provider (e.g., bare-metal, tethered cloud)

Decommission on-premises data centers and move resources to a colocation provider

Decommission on-premises datacenters and move resources to multi-tenant cloud

Move workloads from public cloud or colocation back to on-premise datacenters

22%

21%

18%

15%

Catch vulnerabilities earlier in the SDLC

38%

Collaboration with security teams

17%

Developer security knowledge

19%

Improve security apps

34%

New apps and solutions require datacenters to have security platforms that empower DevSecOps with APIs, agile policy management, threat prevention automation, and visibility across the hybrid cloud networking environment.

Keeping control over data and operations and performing more e�ciently than cloud providers remain key for most datacenters. Organizations that retain or repatriate workloads back on premises from the cloud often do so for

the following reasons:

The key question to ask is: What are the chief considerations

when choosing DevSecOps?

Adoption Drivers Challenges

Servers, public cloud (Iaas/PaaS), SaaS applications,

and enterprise storage systems continue to fall victim to ransomeware attacks.

56% of IaaS environments reported

one or more major security breaches over the past two years.

24% enterprise storage systems

26% public cloud

IaaS and PaaS

28% SaaS

applications

32% servers (virtual or physical)

By taking advantage of unified visibility and controls, hybrid cloud o�ers:

• Simplified, automated, and consistent

security to free up valuable time

and resources

• Consolidation to help reduce complexity

and increase security e�cacy

• DevOps agility that enhances resiliency

and the ability to keep up with

transformational changes

• Autonomous cybersecurity and AI/ML

solutions that accelerate threat detection

and mitigation

• Portability of the rules and policies

shared between private and public cloud

• Extensible APIs to secure the entire

hybrid cloud networking ecosystem

Organizations committed to

a long-term digital transformation

and modernization strategy can improve their security posture and hygiene, making breaches less likely.

Mutually beneficial outcomes from a hybrid cloud approach include:

• Scalability to keep up with demand surges • Ease of implementation and operation • Improved flexibility to move workloads • Consistent rules across on-premises and

cloud provide standardization • Reduced need for additional talent • Improved sustainability

Datacenters need unified security visibility and policy control across on premises and multicloud.

Taking a DevSecOps approach from step one will enable true operational agility, from code to cloud.

When choosing a vendor, organizations should look for a unified, AI-powered threat prevention platform to secure on-premises and cloud assets and workloads.

The bottom line: Whether your hybrid cloud story starts at the

datacenter or in the cloud, starting is half the battle.

The right partner can help you manage the other half of the process. Either way, it's your story to tell.

56% have had breaches

44% none

None

1

2

3

4 5

or more

of data centerswill shift more workloads to the public cloud or colocation facilities to ensure resiliency and availability.

of enterprises will modernize their datacenters by upgrading disaster recovery systems and improving power supply contracts to hedge

against supplier failure.

55%

45%