How Hybrid Cloud technology Can Improve Business Agility

How Hybrid Cloud Technology Can Improve Business Agility

What is Hybrid cloud Technology?

A hybrid cloud is the combination of two or more separate infrastructure types, including on-premises infrastructure or private clouds, and public clouds.

Hybrid cloud technology has gained more popularity in recent times due to the ability of companies being able to want to combine the power of public cloud computing with more tightly controlled private infrastructure.

What Are Hybrid Cloud Benefits?

With the migration of data from conventional data centres growing, the deployment of hybrid cloud computing proves to be priceless, in helping companies access data round-the-clock.

Here are a few hybrid cloud benefits which include the following:

• Hybrid cloud empowers businesses for diversification:

Hybrid cloud architecture empowers companies to combine a blend of different platforms, including public cloud and private cloud. Ensuring easy access to data across-board in the organization.

• It enhances Flexibility:

The flexibility of hybrid clouds is one of its most important advantages. Hybrid cloud computing enables businesses to provide resources when and where they are necessary while lowering the costs associated with 24/7 accessibility. Hybrid cloud services, also referred to as “cloud bursting,” can mix private and public clouds to handle peaks and valleys in IT demand more effectively while avoiding or eliminating service gaps.

 How Are Hybrid Clouds Connected?

Hybrid cloud can be connected by any of these methods:

• VPN: A Virtual Private Network (VPN) enables encrypted and secure Internet communication. Anybody or any machine connected to a VPN can communicate as securely as if they were connected to a secret inner network since VPN communication is encoded. Clouds and on-premises infrastructure can safely communicate over the open Internet with the use of a VPN.

• WAN: In contrast to a local area network (LAN), which links Computers locally, within the same building, or on similar grounds, a wide area network (WAN) connects PCs over long distances. Compared to connections over the public Internet, WAN connections are more reliable. A WAN could create secure connections for hybrid clouds by using a VPN.

• APIs: Integrations of an Application Programming Interface (API) are essential for the operation of hybrid cloud computing since they connect various stages, data bases, apps, etc. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests are used to send programming interface calls from one cloud to the next. These requests can be sent via the public internet, a VPN, or a wide area network (WAN).

Business challenges associated with Hybrid cloud & Multi-cloud Systems.

Operating a hybrid cloud creates many challenges that cost your organization time and money:

• Multiple management tools. Complex hybrid cloud management leaves your IT team siloed and inefficient.
• Lack of visibility. Inability to see and compare performance and costs across environments results in inefficient resource allocation.
• Application incompatibility. The inability to easily deploy applications in the cloud of your choice reduces your business’s effectiveness.
• Manual processes. Lack of automation consumes IT staff time better spent on other tasks.
• Complex security. Inefficiencies in security monitoring and remediation lead to greater risk of human error, a larger attack surface, and increased vulnerability.
• Inadequate cost governance. Cost governance in hybrid and multi-cloud environments is cumbersome—many teams still resort to time-consuming and error-prone spreadsheets to track resources.

Addressing the Limitations

At FPG Technologies and solutions, we address this limitation by extending an industry-leading HCI platform, enabling you to create a hybrid or multi-cloud environment spanning both on-premises data centers and public clouds.
With our FlexCloud solution, you can achieve all the benefits that hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments are expected to deliver such as

• Flexibility and agility. Gain ready access to resources to support new applications, new dev/ test projects, and to quickly accommodate changing infrastructure needs. Move workloads quickly and easily between on-premises and cloud locations without refactoring.
• Elasticity. Respond elastically to fluctuations in resource demands. Consume and release public cloud infrastructure on demand.
• Self-service. Users access IT infrastructure and services through a self-service portal, so your team no longer has to serve as a middleman.
• Cost control. Gain visibility of both private and public cloud costs, optimize costs everywhere and make smarter migration decisions.
• Faster time to market. Eliminate the barriers that slow your business and development teams down.

To learn more our FlexCloud solution can improve your business agility, contact us via info@flexipgroup.com or REQUEST DEMO