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This IDC study assists senior IT leaders in assessing the current state of their hybrid cloud management processes, governance models, technologies, and skills to identify gaps and create a road map for better aligning the organization's management model and tools with the emerging needs of complex, dynamic self-service hybrid cloud environments. This IDC MaturityScape identifies five maturity stages for hybrid cloud management based on a set of specific people, process, and technology dimensions and outcomes. …

The relentless march of end user organizations toward cloud services continues, despite long-standing fears about information security, the lack of visibility into cloud provider security controls, and the shortcomings of controls available to those who utilize cloud services. And while more and more security-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and application programming interfaces (APIs) are becoming available, many cloud service providers just aren't moving fast enough to address today's enterprise needs. Read …