Hybrid Cloud Solutions
"Combine a private and public cloud"
What is the benefit of a hybrid cloud?
As more and more systems become available as a cloud service, there may be situations where a purely private cloud environment isn’t what fits your business best. Perhaps the best setup for you is to have most of your IT in a private cloud, but then have select systems available elsewhere. This is what is known as a hybrid cloud.
Hybrid clouds are IT setups that offer all the flexibility you need for your business and if done right, it can offer the security you want in order to protect your business critical information.
How does it work?
A typical hybrid environment consists of a private cloud at its core. All your fundamentals are in one place, and you get the economies of scales from consolidating all your IT in one place.
Then, you identify which systems you don’t want in your private cloud. This can be a phone system, a CRM system, or other systems that don’t hold business critical data and that for a number of reasons may be better off outside your private cloud.
The next step is to define how these external systems can communicate with your private cloud in a stable and secure way. Once that is set up, your hybrid cloud is in place.
How we work
Knowing which option is best for which system and what the pros and cons of different choices are, can be a complex affair. That is why we always approach our projects as a partnership.
Our starting point is always to understand what you want and what the business needs; not from a technical point of view but from the point of view of functionality, flexibility and stability. From there, we put together different options for you and guide you through the entire decision making process, so that you end up with an IT setup that fits your business.
Far too often we speak to businesses where their operational processes and data flows are being dictated by their IT setup. We are firm believers in doing things the other way around. The starting point must always be your business needs, and any technical solutions should flow from there.
If this sounds like an approach that you think your business could benefit from, fill out your contact details below and we will be in touch for an exploratory conversation.
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Reza Chand says:
"In recent years we have been doing more hybrid cloud setups for companies and it can be a great setup if it is done in the right way. In a hybrid cloud, the key question is always security, data flows and data ownership. There needs to be absolute clarity which system "owns" which data, how the data flows and how this is done securely. By partnering with a professional IT supplier like ourselves, hybrid cloud solutions really can give you the best of the public and private cloud."