As organizations seek the optimal mix of security, agility, and cost efficiency in their data environments, they increasingly find themselves working with both on-premises and public cloud technologies. These hybrid environments provide numerous benefits for differing data types and workloads, but they can also cause operational complexity for the IT professionals tasked with deploying, managing, and maintaining a variety of technologies across numerous vendor products. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that IT teams are looking to solidify their cloud experiences as these hybrid trends evolve.