With so many current companies having to set up their own infrastructures, whether they are SMEs or large companies, or even sole proprietorships; demands for cloud solutions are growing. After all, we are in a time where we connect more than ever, and therefore accessing the company's servers from home, work or on vacation if a force majeure problem arises is important.
The cloud has achieved a connectivity that we did not expect but that brings problems. All products and services are called "solutions" because they take care of solving a problem, but sometimes the problems turn out to be too complex. And one of those problems is that, for an SME, the time has come to opt for a cloud storage and operability service, and each one focuses on an extensive use case but does not cover the needs of diverse companies. The best solution is to contract several cloud services, but redundancies are generated and the problem of having to manage several at the same time. In this case, it is becoming more and more common to hybrid cloud solutions which, in short, bring together all public and even private clouds in a single interface.
The hybrid cloud is presented as the definitive solution given the abundance of solutions
Various cloud service providers offer different infrastructures, all useful in different ways, for the same company. Some are very good for operating a website with forms and as a form of contact, others are better for virtualization, and others are the ones that best support VPNs for remote work. All of them are useful, but when contracting them together, managing them becomes complicated, especially if the IT department is not large or has to solve many incidents of the workers.
Monitoring several clouds at the same time is a complicated process to manage, since each one is managed in a different and specific way. The hybrid cloud is presented as an imperative inclusion for those companies that want to be at the forefront. Its seamless application mobility without the need to retool or restructure clouds allows us to use the same software platform across clouds, both private and public. This allows you to deliver applications from public clouds, such as AWS, exactly as you do from the enterprise data center infrastructure that your IT support team is used to.
Hybrid cloud solutions can be used to manage applications and resources across different clouds, using the same operating practices and existing third-party integrations, for a common experience. All of this eliminates the need to separately develop and maintain different dedicated troubleshooting and operating practices for each cloud environment. A unified experience makes it possible to specialize better, rather than having to learn the specific operations of each cloud.
The hybrid cloud as a service essential for companies
As we discussed, even SMEs today have more needs than years ago, and they also have more demands. They may need to have management software, such as an ERP, cloud-native applications, artificial intelligence for analytics, a database, and the need for application development and testing spaces; being small in size. In addition, with the exponential growth in the demand for remote work for convenience or access to a greater supply of labor, clouds are imperative for the operation of companies.
Maintaining them takes time and requires a team. This team has limited time and knowledge: they can learn to manage the cloud dedicated to web maintenance, the database, the ERP... But each one requires learning a specific course, and having documentation at hand to respond to your needs. The unification of hybrid clouds saves a lot of time in having the IT team ready to solve emergencies.
hybrid cloud solution Nutanix provides an extension of both software and services to help IT departments seamlessly manage their applications in on-premises data centers and public clouds. Application mobility can automate provisioning and application lifecycle management.
This translates into cost optimization. Everything looks much easier, regardless of the number of clouds that are contracted or in use, both for public and private clouds, which allows us to see inactive or overused resources. In this way, we can restructure through RI recommendations to save costs. It's not uncommon to contract larger cloud services than we need for fear of falling short, only to later find that not as much infrastructure was really needed in that specific cloud.
Thus, desktops and applications can be deployed from the public clouds used by companies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform; that can be combined with on-premises deployments, to make the virtual desktop infrastructure a true hybrid cloud service. This is having service both on a local server and in the clouds, all of them interconnected and synchronized through a common interface. We eliminate the need to provision, configure, and manage disparate cloud environments; or to have multiple solutions for failover protection thanks to an integrated service.
The hybrid cloud, in conclusion, unifies everything
With the huge number of cloud services currently required by SMEs due to their growing needs, a single cloud is not perfect, since in order to solve all problems you need to have several different clouds. To this we add a NAS system and internal servers to have data and local control, leaving the company perfectly equipped.
At the end of the day, this hybrid cloud solution saves us from redundancies, from having to learn how to handle different cloud instances and interfaces, all with greater ease. Optimizing complex processes helps us gain time and efficiency.
