The benefits of the cloud—reduced costs, greater IT flexibility, and more—are well-established. But now many organizations are moving to hybrid cloud management platforms. While hybrid clouds do offer a greater level of flexibility, control and security, they can also be enormously complex to manage. Recognizing the need to bring consistency and simplify operations of all on-prem and cloud landscapes, service management, monitoring, security and operations tool vendors have accelerated their efforts to update their products with features that can to greater degree minimize these challenges.