## Gaining IT acceptance 

Many IT professionals are concerned about the growing popularity of cloud computing. What’s the impact on their jobs? Will a self-service and highly-automated cloud computing environment mean that IT professionals will have little to contribute or manage? It isn’t surprising that IT would be concerned about the transition from traditional computing to private and hybrid clouds. However, the reality is that the hybrid world is one vital component in an overall computing strategy. 

Overall, whether we’re talking about a public, private, or data center service, they’re all components of the core IT environment. So organizations can’t think about each service in isolation; instead they need to think of it as a set of unified services that have to be managed in concert. 

## Managing cloud services 

Application developers and operations teams will benefit from the best practices approach that can be leveraged from the various cloud deployment models. However, to ensure a successful cloud journey, IT has to manage several key responsibilities: 

✓ Building shared services based on a service oriented approach:  To enable a hybrid environment to predictably support evolving business requirements, IT needs to be able to codify and then create well-designed business services with well-defined interfaces. These documented services allow the business to create new applications and services quickly and deploy them in many different situations in the new hybrid world. 

✓ Consistently managing the synchronization of data center systems of record with data stored in cloud environments:  Data is foundational to an effective hybrid cloud strategy. Data resides in all the key applications and systems that are supported in these environments. Therefore, IT needs to be able to provide effective management of common definitions and rules on an ongoing basis. 

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