Improving customer experience is driving faster innovation cycles. Organization’s large and small are on a transformation journey to keep pace. Cloud scaling and pay-per-use flexibility has been a catalyst for that transformation. As organizations embrace a multi-cloud model, they expect all their IT environments to keep up.

This paper guides organizations on how to deliver the cloud experience on-premises. First, a quick review of the three basic approaches obtaining IT resources:

1. On-premises compute: a capital expense model.
2. Public cloud: a subscription or pay-per-use model.
3. Public cloud-like on-premises: a pay-per-use, elastic IT consumption model. Commonly referred to as IT as a service (ITaaS).