Public cloud
Allow for greater flexibility, more agility, and opportunities for innovation to deliver your services through the public cloud.
The choice, opportunities for innovation, and resiliency offered by public cloud services are expanding and evolving constantly.
Organisations in the UK are embracing cloud infrastructure and starting to realise the benefits of the cloud-first strategy. Now more than ever, it has become imperative to allow greater flexibility, more agility, and opportunities for innovation to deliver your services.
What are some of the benefits of cloud migration?
Lower costs:
no need to purchase hardware or software and you pay only for the service you use
No maintenance:
your service provider provides the maintenance
Near-unlimited scalability:
on-demand resources are available to meet your organisations needs
High reliability:
a vast network of servers ensures against failure
How does public cloud work?
The public cloud functions under a shared infrastructure model, where numerous users tap into common physical resources such as servers, storage, and network devices. These resources, owned and overseen by a third-party cloud service provider, undergo virtualisation to be partitioned into distinct virtual instances.
Resource allocation within the public cloud is orchestrated by the cloud service provider’s management software. This platform facilitates the automated distribution of virtual resources in response to user requests, spanning from individual virtual machines to multi-tier application environments.
Employing distributed storage systems, public clouds manage data by dispersing it across multiple physical disks situated in diverse locations, ensuring improved availability, redundancy, and rapid data accessibility. In essence, the public cloud harnesses virtualisation, automation, and distributed storage technologies to furnish scalable, on-demand computing resources via the internet.
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Read nowChoosing Microsoft Azure for your cloud migration
Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offered by Microsoft, encompassing a wide array of services and solutions for building, deploying, and managing applications through a global network of data centres. Azure provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings, enabling organisations to flexibly adapt their IT infrastructure to dynamic business needs.
As a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP provider, Phoenix has years of experience in assisting our customers with their migration to Microsoft Azure. Through our dedicated in-house resources, we’re able to provide our customers with the best support and solutions they need to progress and look to the future.
Build the right public cloud infrastructure for you
With the speed and flexibility provided by the cloud, and by working with cloud hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, organisations can shift their focus from the ‘keep the lights on’ operations. This will enable you to free up your team to focus on how systems can adapt to what your citizens, staff, patients, and customer will need next.
Cloud migration strategies require a clearly defined vision and framework for delivering and measuring the value to the organisation both now and in the future – this should cover technology, operations, and financials. Without a clear strategy, on-premises to cloud migration can end up:
- Costing the organisation more
- Leading to stalled projects
- Legacy applications racking up consumption and costs
- A lack of innovation
At Phoenix, we have been helping organisations reap the rewards that public cloud technology offers, to help fast track and improve services across the UK – but how are we able to help transform your organisation?
Surveyor Migrate is a service for organisations that want to swiftly adopt/ migrate their workloads and need an easy and fast way of transferring their virtual machines (VMs) and applications.
This easy and fast way of Azure migration helps organisations to enjoy the advantages of the cloud sooner, without having to modify or restructure their existing applications and workloads in complicated ways. This method involves moving their current applications and workloads from on-premises to Azure in a short time, reducing disruptions and accelerating value creation.
Surveyor Migrate not only makes the migration process easier but also ensures operational continuity, enabling you to leverage the scalability, security, and innovation of Azure.
Talk to us about Surveyor MigrateSurveyor Modernise assesses your current application portfolio. It provides organisations with a strategic multi-stage plan for the modernisation of their portfolio over multiple years.
This plan uses Azure native services and aligns each stage with your business goals, as well as estimating a total cost of ownership. This method ensures a customised transformation that maximises efficiency and innovation.
The outcome is not just a migration, but a comprehensive application modernisation that takes advantage of the full potential of Azure’s native services.
Talk to us about Surveyor ModernisePublic cloud frequently asked questions
Public cloud offers cloud computing services to multiple users over the internet, managed by third-party providers, while private cloud is dedicated solely to one organisation, either managed internally or by a third-party.
Public cloud resources are also shared among users, providing cost-effectiveness and scalability, whereas private cloud offers greater control, security, and customisation options.
Organisations are transitioning over to the public cloud to increase the scalability, agility, and in some cases, cost-effectiveness of their IT infrastructure. As public cloud environments are managed by third-party providers, it also removes the need to handle maintenance, updates, and security in-house.
Public cloud resources are typically charged based on a pay-as-you-go or subscription model. These pricing models offer flexibility and scalability, enabling you to optimise costs based on your usage patterns and requirements.
A cloud-first strategy prioritises cloud solutions for IT initiatives, advocating cloud adoption as the default choice. It involves evaluating cloud options for new projects before considering on-premises alternatives.
The breadth analysis examines the entirety of an organisation’s IT landscape, including applications, data, infrastructure, and dependencies. It assesses the scope and complexity of existing systems to determine the scale of migration efforts.
Addressing security concerns early in the migration process helps prevent vulnerability and ensures data protection throughout the transition to the cloud, safeguarding critical assets and maintaining trust with stakeholders. However, while this stage is important, it’s also imperative you remain aware of security threats throughout the entire process.
The duration of cloud migration varies widely based on factors such as the complexity of the IT environment, the scope of the migration, the chosen migration strategy, and organisational readiness.
Talk to our public 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 cloud migration for your organisation.
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