Key Considerations While Migrating to a Hybrid Cloud

Grazed from PCQuest. Author: Abhay Y. Ghate.

With increasing business complexities, hybrid cloud computing has gained huge popularity these days. It is a model of IT management, wherein a user decides to manage some of their critical information resources in-house and host others on the cloud. Following are some of the scenarios wherein businesses may opt for a hybrid cloud solution:

• Data is extremely sensitive and the management cannot risk hosting it on public infrastructure, but at the same time, wants to leverage scalability in the cloud
• The business is not confident of entrusting data to a third party, especially when it does not know where on the cloud the data is hosted
• Local and national laws prohibit data from leaving the country the company is domiciled in…

So, what are the key considerations for a company while choosing technologies and tools for a hybrid cloud model?

1. Devise a mechanism by which the bare minimum infrastructure will be on the premises, and the rest on cloud
Any business would do well to assess their existing infrastructure before deciding on exactly where to host it. Opting for a public cloud solution indiscriminately doesn’t appear to be the wisest of decisions today, as there will be many ways a company can derive maximum benefit from the existing infrastructure. That said, it helps to develop the IT strategy in a way that only the absolutely essential infrastructure will be on the company’s premises, and rest is hosted taken on the cloud. Typically when enterprise applications involve a lot of telephony, keeping them on-premise is a good option especially if the manpower is concentrated at one location. However all the ancillary systems in such an organization could be hosted on the cloud…

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