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

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

However, the trend points towards public cloud computing, that is, 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 securely and with very high levels of service availability. This allows organizations to save time and resources invested in physical security and other expenses associated with maintaining data centers.  

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 due to business or industry needs, they seek not to abandon 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 your data will be available to everyone, quite the opposite.  They receive that adjective because they are virtual resources provided and accessible through the open internet network, by companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, among others.  These companies have secure data centers capable of withstanding disasters.

Considering integrating cloud resources within your architecture brings multiple benefits: they allow experimenting with various technologies at low cost, resources can be consumed on demand, without the exclusivity of paying for your resources upfront, it is more economical 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 enough information is not managed) is understandable: uploading everything to the cloud, located on the public network, with hardware we do not know where it 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 that more and more companies are adopting: the hybrid cloud.

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The hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud consists of an ecosystem with on-premise components (private cloud) and components in the public cloud. It allows mixing the best of the private cloud (complying with regulations, having control over data center security, etc.) with the best of cloud computing: great 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 on-premise resources more efficient

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

Orchestrate on-premise processes with cloud resources

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

Prototype and test new digital products quickly

If an organization wants to experiment with a technology they have not used before, without risking their current infrastructure, they can use specific on-demand cloud resources for the task they want to perform. For example, if they want to experiment with containers, they can use a cloud server and then discard it, without needing to intervene in their physical infrastructure.

Reduce the costs of operating and maintaining a physical data center.

Instead of constantly increasing your data center hardware, with all the costs and operations that this may imply (for example, the 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.

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How do you start your hybrid cloud?

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

• Migration of services from private clouds to public clouds
• Extraction of data from multiple sources, transformation (cleansing), and loading (from one side to another).
• Monitoring flows and orchestrating data between multiple systems and architectures
• Improving scalability and productivity by designing and implementing architectures and microservices
• Data storage capacity
• Data analysis capacity
• Transactional capacity of the data
  
  

To solve these challenges, we analyze together with our clients the current data flows, needs, where they want to go, and how working alongside a specialist team, they can add value to their business.  Since all organizations are at different stages of their digital transformation, we have worked with clients who are starting to build their hybrid cloud, as well as clients 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 specialization of their IT areas.

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

Are you looking to modernize your infrastructure and adopt technologies that 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 would love to meet you!  

Ready to take your technological infrastructure to the next level with a hybrid cloud solution?

At Kranio, we help you design and implement hybrid cloud strategies that adapt to the specific needs of your business, combining security, flexibility, and scalability. Contact us and discover how we can drive your company's digital transformation.