What Is a Hybrid Cloud Strategy in the Context of AI? Dave McCarthy, vice president of cloud and edge infrastructure services at IDC, says a hybrid cloud strategy in the AI era is far more than a tactical combination of on-premises hardware and public cloud instances. Rather than treating these environments as isolated silos, a true hybrid strategy establishes common data planes, unified security protocols and containerized workload mobility. Why Do Agencies Run in Hybrid Environments Without a Strategy? In effect, many organizations have arrived at hybrid AI by necessity rather than by design.