Most organizations have information systems on premise, either in the form of applications, data systems or multiple forms of storage (databases, shared documents under NFS protocol, among others).  

The reasons for this are varied and simple: it is common for companies to have their own private cloud, i.e., their own physical data center on their premises, either because of a business need, because of information security, because of regulations that must be complied with according to their industry, because of the control and physical and logical security measures that the company can exercise over its own facilities, because of the capacity to respond quickly to incidents that may arise and that have originated in the physical data center, or because when security or infrastructure audits have to be carried out, they can do so on site.

However, the trend is towards public cloud computing, i.e. the use and consumption of virtual resources to store and process data. These virtual resources are provided by companies specializing in cloud services, which have data centers in strategic locations around the world in a secure manner and with very high levels of availability of their services. This allows organizations to save time and resources invested in physical security and other expenses associated with data center maintenance.  

In this way, all the time and resources saved, can be used by organizations to improve their services, their processes, and to innovate within their own industry.  

Today, many companies want to experiment with the public cloud, but because of business or industry needs, they are looking to keep their private cloud.  

Why public cloud?

There is no need to be scared by the word "public", since being in the cloud does not mean that your data will be available to everyone, quite the contrary. They receive that adjective because they are virtual resources provided and accessible through the open Internet, by companies like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, among others. These companies have secure data centers, capable of withstanding disasters.

Considering integrating cloud resources into your architecture brings multiple benefits: it allows you to experiment with various technologies at low cost, resources can be consumed on demand, without being exclusive to paying for your resources in advance, it is cheaper than maintaining a physical data center, and the resources you create can be disposable or can persist over time. It is highly flexible to any need.

This may sound risky to you, migrating all assets, data, storage and application execution to the cloud. And this fear (if you don't handle enough information) is understandable: uploading everything to the cloud, located in the public network, with hardware that we don't know where it is, that is guarded by third parties, and without the possibility of visiting the facilities could sound crazy.

That is why there is an alternative that is becoming increasingly attractive and which more and more companies are adopting: the hybrid cloud.

‍If you can better understand these conversations, rank (word cloud), prioritize and engage users, you can improve a lot and build a true cult following.

The Hybrid Cloud

A hybrid cloud consists of an ecosystem with components on premise (private cloud) and components in the public cloud. It allows you to mix the best of the private cloud (regulatory compliance, control over data center security, etc.) with the best of cloud computing: large computing capacity, infinite storage, on-demand resource consumption, lower cost and scalability, among others.

A hybrid infrastructure benefits your organization, with multiple uses. Just to mention a few:

Optimize and make resources on premise efficient

Organizations have critical processes for their business, with sensitive data, and also auxiliary processes or with less sensitive data. You can use only your private cloud for critical workloads, and migrate ancillary tasks to the cloud.

Orchestrating on-premise processes with cloud resources

Many organizations have applications, databases, CRM, or others, which are deployed in their private clouds. At the same time, there are business processes that are being executed manually, but that you could definitely do in an automated way. There are cloud solutions that allow you to orchestrate and automate processes, reducing human intervention to 0.

Prototype and test new digital products quickly

If an organization wants to experiment with a technology they have not used before, without putting their current infrastructure at risk, they can use on-demand cloud resources specific to the task at hand. For example, if it wants to experiment with containers, it can use a cloud server and then discard it, without having to intervene in its physical infrastructure.

Reduce the costs of operating and maintaining a physical data center

Instead of constantly increasing the hardware of your data center, with all the costs and operations that that may imply (for example, time for risk analysis, downtime, time needed for physical resource setup, etc.) you can use virtual resources, which by nature are elastic, scalable, disposable or persistent as needed.

‍If you can better understand these conversations, rank (word cloud), prioritize and engage users, you can improve a lot and build a true cult following.

How do you start your hybrid cloud?

At Kranio, our data teams help our customers create digital products and services, where data is the protagonist. This leads us to solve challenges with common denominators:

• Migration of services from private to public clouds
• Data extraction from multiple sources, transformation (debugging) and loading (back and forth).
• Monitoring of data flows and orchestration between multiple systems and architectures
• Improve scalability and productivity by designing and implementing architectures and microservices
• Data storage capacity
• Data Analysis Capability
• Transactional capacity of the data
  
  

To solve these challenges, we analyze together with our customers, the current data flows, the needs, where they want to go and how working together with a specialist team, they can add value to their business. As all organisations are in different phases of their digital transformation, we have worked with customers who are starting to build their hybrid cloud, as well as with customers who have been working with this model for years, which has brought them benefits such as greater agility, savings in time and economic resources, and greater specialisation in their IT areas.

We recommend that you dare to try and encourage the adoption and use of a hybrid cloud over time.

Are you looking to modernize your infrastructure, and adopt technologies that will allow you to build your own hybrid cloud? Are you looking to take your current hybrid cloud to the next level? If these questions identify you, contact us, we'd love to hear from you!  

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