Hybrid Cloud Strategy
A hybrid cloud strategy lets you pick the best price and performance from public and private cloud — the same way IT teams have always cherry-picked the best server, storage and network vendors on-premise.
A blend of onsite and cloud-based resources
Hybrid IT environments blend onsite and cloud-based resources, helping contain equipment sprawl and the management problems that come with it. Businesses in every sector are looking to cloud services to augment or replace traditional on-premises IT and support digital transformation — some run their own cloud infrastructure, some use public cloud services, and most use a combination of both.
- Extend your existing on-premise storage investment
- Reduce costs for on-site storage capacity
- Align data storage costs with the actual value of the data
- Improve disaster recovery and business continuity
- Free up IT staff for strategic, innovation-focused projects
Public, private or hybrid?
Public cloud is a shared, remotely hosted multi-tenant environment. Private cloud is dedicated to a single tenant, usually virtualised and run in your own data centre. Hybrid mixes both — private cloud for workloads with strict security or performance needs, public cloud for everything else.
Agility, cost control and compliance
Agility & scalability
Provision compute and storage at the click of a button, and burst to the cloud when local capacity runs out.
Cost management
Run each workload in whichever environment is most cost-efficient, instead of over-provisioning one estate.
Compliance
Keep regulated data in a private environment while still running workloads in the cloud.