Hybrid Cloud

Introduction

Hybrid cloud is the combination of public cloud services with private clouds.

(E.g.: On-Premise data center) to have a centralized, distributed and automated management system.

Hybrid cloud gives the flexibility, scalability and access to extra storage computer resources of the public cloud without affecting the security, predictability and performance of local infrastructure 

What is a Public cloud?

It is a third-party computing service provider like hardware, networking, storage, services, applications over a public network, making it available for public use or purchase based on their requirement.

What is a Private Cloud?

It is a Computing service limited within the organization, also known as Corporate cloud, used for its employees and customers.

Why Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud computing is a key factor for efficient management of an organization’s application workloads as different applications require a different platform. Few of the challenges to be faced while adopting a Hybrid Cloud Computing includes:

• Security Factor for managing different security platforms simultaneously and to critically monitoring the flow of data from public and private cloud.  
• Integration of private and public cloud is one of the biggest challenges. High technical skills are required in integrating multiple clouds and moving configurations and metadata across the environment is much more difficult.
• Cloud Management, the configuration of Cloud Services across different providers and dealing with servers that exist across, is crucial.
• In this dynamic and ever scaling cloud setting scalability, the limit is crucial, and that needs to be revised regularly. With a solid infrastructure, this can be solved.

The network design should be excellent that impacts on network bandwidth, public and private cloud management, network requirement for applications, data security and more.

Benefits of Hybrid Cloud

Companies have found a maximum benefit with the adoption of public and private cloud environments. Hybrid cloud deployment has provided a tremendous advantage in terms of versatility and responsive and helping the organization in adopting creative solutions for their IT and computing needs.

• It provides control over operations, server management and IT infrastructure.
• Speed of network can be optimized and having dedicated network between On-Premise and Public Cloud will remove performance issues, helping the users to be more productive. While public clouds must spread their resources and be many things for many customers, private clouds can be more purpose built and minimize their resource demands. Whether by offloading non-critical operations to the public cloud or configuring the network to handle only critical traffic, the private portion of a hybrid cloud can be designed to help users work faster and be more productive.
• Data can be secured by adopting encryption method on cloud. Hybrid cloud can increase security by enabling you to keep sensitive data on a dedicated infrastructure that you have more control over.
• It can help in maximizing the cost-efficiency like capital expenditure.
• Scalability – with public cloud, it is easy to scale up and down the resources based on circumstances and load, which enables to manage traffic efficiently and effectively.
• Flexibility – the “pick and mix” style of hybrid cloud gives organizations the chance to explore a variety of operational directions and find the optimum cloud solution for them. With hybrid cloud, organization’s workloads get on-premise computational efficiency which ensures maximum workload management.

Future of Hybrid Cloud

Future of Hybrid cloud would be the most preferred implementation model of most of the organization and which will drive the cloud industry to the next level. The evolution of the hybrid cloud is tremendously heading at a fast pace.

• It aids in providing a consistent hybrid experience across the environment.
• Hybrid multi-cloud will become a new trend in IT.
• Edge-computing will become the critical element of hybrid cloud strategies.
• Strong adoption of containers can be witnessed as an operational concern associating with Hybrid cloud.
• HCI platform will be the most used platform to run the Hybrid cloud.
• Hybrid cloud will be the most approached method for DR and backup, which would be beneficial for business.
• The emergence of Cloud management platform and Managed service combination will be the most preferred partners for a seamless experience of Hybrid infrastructure.