Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Solution

Organisations don't have to choose between cloud and on-premise. Hybrid Cloud lets you modernise incrementally — preserving existing investments while building toward a fully Cloud-Native environment at your own pace.

Hybrid cloud solutions allow organisations to benefit from the security advantages of your on-premise environment as well as the flexibility of the public cloud.

Hybrid Cloud – The best pathway to becoming Cloud-Native

Many companies have the goal of becoming Cloud-Native, but are restricted by complex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) strategies. These companies could also have issues with change management, due to the complexity of their organisational and IT structure. With Hybrid Cloud solutions, organisations can retain their on-premise infrastructure while benefiting from the cloud in certain areas. Hybrid Cloud environments make the move to becoming Cloud-Native easiest and most straightforward, without the need for a monolithic and complicated migration strategy.

What is Hybrid Cloud?

Hybrid Cloud generally refers to an IT infrastructure made up of an on-premise environment as well as a public and/or private cloud environment. Organisations gain great flexibility and agility as these interconnected environments collaborate and ensure IT resources are used to their full potential.

Hybrid Cloud vs Cloud-Native vs On-Premise

Making the move to a Cloud-Native environment is the ideal end goal for companies, however a once-off migration of all IT resources to the cloud can be very complex and complicated, with many moving parts. Additionally, these companies could face losing valuable cost savings, as the on-premise infrastructure they planned and paid for will go unutilised.

With the Hybrid Cloud approach, companies can still make use of their on-premise systems while slowly modernising their resources and applications. This gives them time to offload their on-premise hardware without experiencing any operational impact. Hybrid Cloud environments allow for increased agility, scalability, cost savings, and ultimately initiate the migration to a cloud-native solution with a manageable and controlled approach.

What is the Hybrid Cloud approach?

The Hybrid Cloud approach refers to the decoupling and deployment of smaller sets of IT resources into the cloud. An example would be having the business-critical resources and applications continue to run in the on-premise environment, while a Disaster Recovery and Backup solution moves to a cloud-native environment.

Security and Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery and off-site Backup solutions are a great way to begin introducing your IT teams to the cloud. By having your cloud environment set up as your DR and backup environment, you can save costs while still having a redundant backup site.

This allows your familiar resources to continue running on-premise, and in the case of a failure or loss of data, your cloud DR site will be able to immediately resume operations. This minimises downtime and allows you to continue running resources and applications on the cloud, without being affected by your compromised on-premise environment.