Optimizing enterprise hybrid cloud architectures

Risks abound in hybrid environments for obvious reasons: more platforms, multiple clouds, and lack of skills make managing the performance of databases and the workloads running against them extremely difficult. As organizations move to the cloud, they face challenges and complexities such as planning,
cost, business downtime, and managing multiple database types and cloud configurations at once.

Enterprise organizations need to avoid the following common pitfalls in order to realize the full benefits of the cloud:

• Unplanned cloud sprawl
• Cloud cost explosion
• Performance problems