In this episode of Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Mike Williams, IBM Fellow, Architecture, GTS IS Offerings & CTO discuss how to help customers transform toward hybrid cloud.  They talk about the reasons behind the transformation journey that surprisingly, its not just due to superior technology, but because customers need to move faster, more nimbly, and provide more revenue streams.  They discuss the importance of responsibly modernizing applications, not just lift-and-shift to the cloud. Andre and Mike discuss transformation as a sport, where the ball gets moved slowly down the field - where the end goal is to be fully cloud native - and the intermediate steps that lead up to it.  They also talk about the importance of operational refactoring - not just application refactoring - and how the development and operational worlds come together.
Art by Matt Cardinal.