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The hybrid IT environment is here to stay. But many organizations still haven’t been able to grasp the essential benefits of uniting a mix of workloads that live on premises, in the cloud, on the edge, and/or in co-location.  Whether you’re eager to extend your data center into the cloud for increased capacity and disaster recovery, or you simply want certain applications to reside in the cloud while others on-prem for compliance and cost reasons, there are key things you can do to fully leverage hybrid IT. Here are five tips to get the most out of this multi-source environment: 1. Knowing Why is as Important as Knowing How Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Before jumping into hybrid IT, do an appraisal of your business goals and decide what you expect your hybrid IT environment to do. Don’t just start selecting a bunch of cloud services and begin using them. “Blueprint” your enterprise’s strategic IT plan for half a decade into the future. Try to forecast ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Slack, a workplace messaging company,  said Monday  that it had confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering, joining the growing number of technology start-ups heading to the stock market. Slack, which is based in San Francisco, gave no details about the offering’s timing and said it was awaiting a standard review of its paperwork by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The move was expected given that Slack’s chief executive, Stewart Butterfield, had long indicated that he planned to take the company public. Slack recently  hired Goldman Sachs  to lead the offering. Slack’s confidential filing comes amid  a rush by privately held companies  to go public this year. Many of these start-ups, which have been highly valued by private investors, are part of a generation of technology companies known as unicorns. Public share sales by the companies are expected to create a bonanza of riches in Silicon Valley for entrepre...