As they say, we should always move towards betterment. Though the concept of Advantages of Hybrid Cloud Computing came into limelight in 2006, companies like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Google launched their respective cloud services only after 2010. As public clouds got popular, businesses started raising concerns about security as they wanted to keep highly sensitive data behind the firewalls, thus finding a legitimate reason to support private clouds. However, this was not the end of the story. Private clouds came to rescue as they offer high-end data security, but cost an arm and a leg to businesses.
So, where did the solution lie?
The providers and adopters shifted their focus to Hybrid Clouds to find a solution.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a hybrid cloud is the composition of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud. The most common form of hybrid cloud can be seen where companies develop a private cloud environment and take services from a public cloud provider to create a seamless connection between the two. Statistics show that the global hybrid cloud market is expected to reach 91.74 billion USD by 2021.
Why Hybrid Clouds?
With economic uncertainty and volatility, the need for businesses to remain responsive and agile has risen drastically. Sustenance is under threat if companies fail to respond to market changes and ever-evolving consumer demands. Hybrid cloud can be seen as a win-win solution that permits companies to remain cost-efficient by making optimal use of in-house infrastructure. At the same time, they capitalize on new business opportunities by moving the particular workload to the public cloud environment. A hybrid cloud is an optimum balance of on-premise cloud technology and off-premise public cloud service that can vary from businesses to businesses. Thus, it is never a one-size-fits-all solution.
Hybrid clouds follow a unique approach that ensures that both models remain as individual entities bounded by technologies while enabling data and application portability in a highly secured environment. A hybrid environment is like taking advantage of both worlds.
Hybrid cloud computing supports SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) delivery models. Hybrid clouds offer IaaS portability and PaaS and SaaS interconnection and application portability.
Let’s see the advantages of hybrid clouds:
Security
: Hybrid clouds lead when it comes to safety. The enterprises can quickly deploy the best security practices into the public cloud to ensure data encryption and other security features. They can maintain compliance and privacy requirements in the public cloud as they do for private clouds. The security is intact even with integration is carried out with external enterprise management systems.
Interoperability
: The portability of applications is seamless in a hybrid environment. The capability to transfer data, applications, programs, across heterogeneous clouds is the source of strategic advantage for enterprises. The elastic and scalable storage supported by two clouds yields efficiency and agility to the enterprise functions. Hybrid clouds render the capability to run workloads on highly compatible virtualized platforms, thus enhancing the performance and capacity management of the system.
Interconnectivity
: Again, the smooth communication between two coexisting environments is a boon for companies facilitating the fast movement of virtual machines and other data.
Scalability
: Hybrid clouds extend incredible support to businesses at the time of peak or no workloads. They can easily switch the load and scale up their business processes at the time of unpredictable demands. The management of applications across the cloud environment is not challenging as it offers complete visibility. Organizations can run mission-critical applications on private cloud whereas can employ public cloud for testing and development.
Katalyst can help
Katalyst Software Services Limited is a leading IT company that helps clients in taking advantage of a highly available and dynamic hybrid cloud environment. We offer AWS and Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud solutions to support a broad spectrum of business functions. Get ready to take advantage of the hybrid computing environment.
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