Why Businesses Should Migrate To Hybrid Cloud?

What is Hybrid Cloud Computing and why businesses should migrate or adopt cloud solutions as an essential solution for their business?

Cloud computing has rapidly changed in last decade. The cloud solutions have transformed the way a business can operate in IT. The cloud offers a quick and easy distribution with flexibility, plus it changes the traditional high capital expenditure model into a very efficient and manageable operating cost model.

Cloud computing is basically everywhere around us, even though you don’t realise it. All of us use online services on daily basis whether you send email, edit documents, watch a TV series or listen to music, play games, and/or store files. Cloud computing is happening behind the scenes.

Cloud computing defines the delivery of computing services and using a network of remote servers such as: servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics; over the Internet (“cloud”).

At its most basic form, the hybrid cloud joins together a public cloud such as Microsoft Azure, with a private cloud platform used by an organisation. Both cloud platforms are separate and independent. They use encrypted connection methods that allows communication with data and applications.

For some businesses, the hybrid cloud is considered as a halfway step between the old on site data storage and processing setups and migrating to the public cloud.

Check the following video on Hybrid Cloud, its elements, benefits and features created by Intel.

The hybrid cloud computing means big changes and challenges for organisations. The hybrid cloud is shifting the way small businesses do business. Here are the reasons why businesses should consider transferring to the cloud:

1. Lower Costs / Capacity Expansion

For every type of business, IT infrastructure can be extremely expensive and at times inefficient. Implementing new hybrid automation rules can provide better flexibility for specific workloads. It means that hybrid cloud takes advantage of unlimited resources based on demand driven usage, plus it optimises the IT infrastructure for better performance and efficiency. It brings effective and efficient hardware utilisation, virtualization and increases the value of physical server hardware. Consequently, the business will notice a decrease in rack space, power usage, and on-flowing IT requirements. It also means lower installation, maintenance, hardware, upgrade and support costs.

2. Risk Management / More Flexibility

The hybrid cloud offers the continuous opportunity for companies to test the capability of specific workloads and vendors in a cloud based environment and support them in planning their cloud strategy. Hybrid cloud needs complex planning and design to combine an organisation’s IT infrastructure with a cloud environment.

3. Better Connectivity / Network Optimisation

The hybrid cloud can improve the accessibility, scalability and consistency of the connection by leveraging the provider’s network investment. The hybrid cloud can decrease network connectivity speeds during peak traffic periods by mitigating new bandwidth connectivity solutions into on-premise cloud locations plus increasing performance by reducing long distance latency.

4. Innovation

Shifting your business strategy into hybrid cloud could be one of the biggest steps towards future growth of a company and the ability to stay innovative. The solutions give your business a) access to public cloud resources b) the ability to test out new technologies and c) the opportunity to get into new markets faster without any massive initial investment.

5. Security

While there is a perception that Cloud is less secure than on premise infrastructure, Cloud computing faces fewer malicious attacks on a daily basis (See statistics). Businesses however must ensure that data is correctly protected and the control itself is maintained by the right people. Furthermore, there might be more regulatory requirements that ban data from being stored off-site and/or offshore, which may prevent the use of a public cloud totally.

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