Hybrid cloud
Build for tomorrow with a hybrid cloud environment.
What is hybrid cloud?
Hybrid cloud refers to a computing environment that combines on-premises infrastructure with cloud services from one or more public cloud providers. In a hybrid cloud setup, data and applications seamlessly move between the private and public clouds, allowing organisations to take advantage of the scalability and flexibility of the public cloud while retaining control over sensitive data and certain applications on-premises.
This approach provides a balance between the benefits of both private and public clouds, offering greater flexibility, optimisation of existing infrastructure, and the ability to meet specific organisation requirements.
The benefits of hybrid cloud for your organisation
Accelerated innovation:
hybrid cloud enables you to experiment, develop, and deploy new applications quickly in the public cloud, without compromising the security of existing systems
Disaster recovery and business continuity:
critical data and applications can be replicated and stored in the public cloud, providing a secure backup in case of on-premises failures or disasters
Cost and resource optimisation:
allocate budgets more effectively and direct resources where they are most needed and achieve a better return on investment
Enhanced data control and compliance:
keep sensitive data and critical workloads on-premises while leveraging the public cloud for less sensitive operations
Scale your IT resources dynamically:
during periods of increased demand or specific workloads, you can leverage the public cloud’s scalability
Hybrid Cloud – Data Centre Extend
Get a consistent infrastructure whether in the cloud or on-premises and increase agility, optimise IT, and reduce risk to your organisation.
Almost all of our customers have used virtualisation technologies over the years to benefit from the cost saving and flexibility that this brings and as a result their staff have amassed technical expertise in technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V.
For example, if you’re running VMware vSphere today on premises, you could purchase a cloud service, such as Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) or VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS). Both of these provide additional cloud-based vSphere host servers as well as other software-defined data centre (SDDC) technologies, allowing you to seamlessly extend your existing data centre to the cloud.
What are the benefits of Hybrid Cloud – Data Centre Extend
Allow your staff to utilise their existing skills to manage workloads in the cloud
Migrate to and from the cloud easily
Ability to move to the cloud quickly or at your own pace
Keep applications that needs to stay on-premises, while taking advantage of additional native services on workloads in the cloud
Hybrid Cloud – Cloud Extend
Creating a hybrid cloud by extending the technology currently running in public clouds to your own on-premises data centres is a new way to solve some of today’s IT challenges.
Hybrid Cloud – Cloud Extend brings native cloud to you and allows organisations to leverage native cloud services for most of their workloads but have some or even single specific application of datasets which can’t be moved to the cloud. We regularly see organisations with line of business applications which run more effectively when local to their users, and we also see customers with large datasets for who the cloud ingress/ egress charges would be cost prohibitive.
These services are fully managed by the cloud provider, who look after both your cloud platform and the extension of the cloud platform running in your data centre.
Some vendors provide and manage the on-premises hardware you need to operate, while others such as the Azure Stack offering from Microsoft, which can start from two server nodes and provide the flexibility for you to choose your own hardware vendor.
Creating your hybrid cloud with Phoenix
Phoenix is partnered with both industry leading cloud and on-premises solution vendors that gives us the capability to plan, build, and deliver unique hybrid cloud solutions for our customers.
UK leading Microsoft partner
As an award-winning Microsoft partner and with 11 Microsoft Specialisations including Microsoft Cloud and Azure Infrastructure, our team of Microsoft Specialists understand what our customers require to build a cloud infrastructure that’ll compliment your existing or new on-premises locations.
VMware by Broadcom Premier Partner
As well as being a provider of cloud solutions with Microsoft, Phoenix also holds the Premier Partner status with VMware by Broadcom, highlighting our capabilities of delivering tailored on-premises solutions for our customers.
Dell Technologies Titanium Partner
As a Dell Technologies partner for over 25 years and holding Dell’s Titanium Partner status, Phoenix is well equipped in supporting you from conception to final deployment with your hybrid cloud requirements.
Hybrid cloud frequently asked questions
The hybrid cloud approach lets you leverage the strengths of different cloud environments, while mitigating risks and maximising flexibility. It allows you to retain sensitive data on-premises while utilising public cloud scalability for other workloads.
Hybrid cloud combines on-premises infrastructure with public and private cloud servers, whereas multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers simultaneously.
Talk to our Hybrid Cloud Specialists today
Arrange a free chat with one of our specialists today to discuss the current state of your data centre, the challenges you’re facing, and the benefits of hybrid cloud for your organisation.
You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.