What Is Hybrid Cloud Computing? And What Are Its Benefits?
The hybrid cloud is an IT architecture that combines some degree of portability, orchestration, and workload management through two or more environments.
As they give companies greater control over their private data, hybrid cloud services are strong. A company can store confidential data in a private cloud or local data centre and leverage a managed public cloud’s robust computing capabilities at the same time. Unlike a multi-cloud approach in which administrators must separately control each cloud environment, a hybrid cloud relies on a single management plane.
The environment of the Hybrid Cloud may need to include:
- A bare-metal or the virtual environment connected to at least one cloud: public or private
- Two or more public clouds
- Two or more private clouds
- At least one private cloud and at least one public cloud
These differing parameters are evolving from the earlier era of cloud computing, where location and ownership quickly identified the distinctions between public clouds and private clouds. But the types of the cloud of today are much more complicated since location and ownership are abstract factors.
This is why describing hybrid cloud computing by what it does can be more beneficial. A hybrid cloud needs to:
- Incorporate a single, unified management tool.
- Connect multiple computers through a network.
- Scale-out and quickly provision new resources.
- Be able to move workloads between environments.
- Consolidate IT resources.
Are hybrid clouds secure?
A hybrid cloud that is properly built, integrated, and managed can be as safe as conventional on-site IT infrastructures. The existence of multiple environments can be one of the best protection against security threats. However, there are some particular hybrid cloud security challenges (such as data transfer, increased complexity, and a larger attack surface). All these interconnected environments allow organizations to choose where to place confidential data based on requirements and enable security teams to streamline redundant cloud storage to improve efforts to recover from disasters.
What are the Benefits of the Hybrid Cloud?
- Flexibility:
It is one of the key advantages of introducing a hybrid cloud approach. Instead of conferring all aspects of IT infrastructure to a third-party cloud provider, businesses can modify and adapt the private end of their hybrid cloud model to their particular needs as they see fit.
Although public cloud providers are sensitive to some degree, in hybrid cloud architecture, some companies benefit greatly from exerting direct control over their IT properties. Because conditions and needs in today’s fast-moving economy appear to shift regularly, maintaining the flexibility to reconfigure and make other adjustments to the cloud environment that holds much of the critical data assets of an organization allows it easier to adapt with minimal disruption to such changes.
- Availability:
Another benefit of the Hybrid Cloud is Availability. The combination of both the public and private cloud enables enterprises to take advantage of both environments. Hybrid cloud ensures that you can take advantage of each form of distribution (public, private, colocation) while minimizing the risk of selecting only one. Depending on where, where and how you need them, you can assign resources to either private or public cloud storage and easily scale resources up and down as your business needs change.
Why UnityOne?
Because the foundation of your cloud matters.
With two decades of experience in managing complex hybrid cloud footprints encapsulated, our UnityOne solution is a SaaS Hybrid Multicloud Management Platform for managing real hybrid cloud environments like data centre cabinets, power distribution units (PDUs), bare-metal servers, networking devices, containers pods, mesh services, and serverless, across data centres, private clouds (VMware, Hyper-V, and OpenStack), and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI). The customers get a seamless experience managing the entire hybrid cloud infrastructure using the integrated monitoring, visualization, management, auditing, and modern DevOps automation capabilities.
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