Enterprises are increasingly driven to transform their businesses, modernize their applications and embrace cloud platforms and operating models as core to their IT systems. These motivations are driving factors in decisions about where and how organizations deploy and operate workloads across increasingly hybrid mixtures of on-premises and off-premises environments. A hybrid strategy that includes on-premises systems, hosted infrastructure and public cloud services is now the standard IT posture, with workloads being deployed according to the environments best suited to their needs. For many organizations and applications, hosted private cloud will provide the best fit for a variety of application and business requirements