Hybrid Cloud
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What is Hybrid Cloud?

What is Hybrid Cloud?

Hybrid Cloud is a mixed environment system of computing and storage. It combines private and public cloud features into one easily accessible platform. Our Hybrid Cloud is similar to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure with orchestration among the various platforms.

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Hybrid Cloud is a mixed environment system of computing and storage. It combines private and public cloud features into one easily accessible platform. Our Hybrid Cloud is similar to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure with orchestration among the various platforms.

Hybrid cloud benefits

The most important aspect of a digital business is being able to adapt and change direction quickly, and that’s why Hybrid Cloud’s primary benefit is its flexibility. By opting for our Hybrid Cloud hosting services, you’ll be able to get the upper hand over your competitors in the industry, quick speeds, flexibility, powerful systems, and great uptime.

Cloud services are aiding the fast-moving digital business conversion. Every technology management company, including Zeus Cloud, runs under two agendas:

·        IT Agenda – This would be focused on saving money.

·        Business Transformation Agenda – This would be focused on investments to increase money income.

Is Hybrid Cloud right for you?

So many forward-thinking companies, including Zeus Cloud, are opting for a hybrid mixture of cloud services. This is due to the fact not everything belongs in a public cloud. The benefit of using both private and public clouds in the Hybrid Cloud system takes advantage of existing architecture in a data centre.

Hybrid approaches enable applications and components to interoperate across boundaries(I.E. Cloud versus on premises), between cloud instances, and between architectures, for example between modern and traditional digital.

With your data the same amount of distribution and access versatility is needed. In the dynamic digital world you should always plan for the evolving needs and things needing to move around whether you are handling workloads or datasheets. Where applications or data live now might not necessarily be the best place for them over a prolonged time scale.

A Hybrid cloud architecture includes these characteristics:

·        Your on-premises data centre, private and public cloud resources, and workloads are tied together under common data management while staying distinct.

·        You can connect existing systems running on traditional architectures that run business-critical applications or contain sensitive data that might not be suited for the public cloud.

 

Hybrid cloud infrastructures are enabled by a Data Fabric, which uses a software-defined approach to provide a common set of data services across any combination of IT resources.

 

Public Cloud: Advantages and Disadvantages

If you were to contract into AWS or Azure, you would be using a public cloud. This would mean you are renting out a small margin of their data centre infrastructure. Public clouds deliver cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). They offer massive scale, scale elastically and run fully automated. This would be near impossible to offer on-premises data centre to compete on price or efficiency.

Advantages:

-         Scalability (both up and down) which means it is almost unlimited due to on-demand cloud resources.

-         Lower capital expenditure (capex) which means you do not need to purchase all your own data centre equipment.

-         Reliability due to services distributed across multiple data centres.

Disadvantages:

-         Less control over data security. You never know where – and under what geographic or other restrictions – your data is operating.

-         Higher operation expenditure (opex). As you scale performance, your cost-per-hour fees rise.

 

Private cloud: Advantages and disadvantages

For you to set up a private cloud within your enterprise, you would be setting up a dedicated cloud infrastructure. This gives you the power to manage the private cloud yourself, hire a third-party service and whether you host it in your data centre or off-premises.

Advantages:

-          Security. Your data and applications remain behind your firewall and are accessible only to your enterprise—making private clouds better suited for processing or storing sensitive data.

-         Potentially lower TCO. Through lower opex over time.

-         Greater control and customization. Fit your servers to your enterprise’s preferences.

-         Flexibility. Ability to move non-sensitive data to a public cloud to accommodate sudden bursts of demand on your private cloud.

Disadvantages:

-         Higher costs. Increased initial charges and the need to repay costs of the equipment you purchase.

-         Responsibility. For operating and maintaining your own datacentre, IT hardware, and enterprise software—as well as your own security and compliance.

-         Less flexibility. In scaling IT resources up or down as your needs change.

Author
Mark Grindey
Group CEO / MD

Mark Grindey is a dedicated professional with a strong passion for cloud computing and a mission to make it accessible to all. With a over a decades experience and a deep understanding of existing cloud technologies, Mark Grindey is constantly striving to improve and enhance these tools, ensuring that their benefits can be leveraged by businesses of all sizes.

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