An intelligent, stable, and security-focused operating foundation for modern IT environments
A hybrid cloud approach takes advantage of the cost and agility benefits of public cloud resources while maintaining on-premise infrastructure to meet specific workload, security, or compliance demands. The benefits of integrating public cloud resources into a hybrid infrastructure are key to competing in today’s innovation-driven environment—including unlimited scalability and massive compute performance. However, you must also consider the impact of hybrid cloud on both your organization and its digital transformation journey.
When it comes to hybrid cloud, the question isn’t when but how.
How can you:
- Build a production-grade cloud environment?
- Simplify cloud migration with expertise and support?
- Protect your business with integrated security?
- Streamline cloud management?
Three considerations for a successful hybrid cloud transition
When developing a hybrid cloud strategy, these three considerations will help ensure the successful integration of public cloud resources into a hybrid infrastructure.
1. Reduce complexity. When applications reside in both public cloud and on-premise environments, it can create a high level of complexity. How will you manage applications? Will you have the visibility needed to maintain application performance and stability? Can you ensure configuration security and identify vulnerabilities? Efficient management is key to building applications than can be easily migrated to the cloud and that best practices and processes are put in place.
2. Recognize that empowerment can bring risk. Cloud capabilities allow any team member to deploy infrastructure to meet project needs. Developers can work faster with instant access to the resources and tools they require. While this freedom may accelerate innovation and application development, it can also introduce risk. To reduce this risk, developer resources and tools must be standardized, delivered with security, and aligned with organizational processes.
3. Approach cloud as a journey, not a destination. Embarking on a hybrid cloud journey brings greater flexibility and the opportunity to adopt new ways of working that can help you move faster, innovate, and compete in ways that weren’t possible in environments that lacked agility or were cost prohibitive. Where you are today will not be where you are tomorrow, and along that journey, you will encounter new technologies that fundamentally change how you approach application development and your environment. From greater application portability with containers, to lifting and shifting apps, to protecting against an evolving threat landscape, hybrid cloud is a long-term strategy that will evolve with your business.
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