Most organizations have information systems on premise, either in the form of applications, data systems or in multiple forms of storage (databases, documents shared under the NFS protocol, and 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 in their facilities, either for a business need, for information security, for regulations that they must comply with depending on their industry, because of the control and physical and logical security measures that the company can exercise over its own facilities, the ability to respond quickly to incidents that may occur and that have originated in the physical data center, or because when it is necessary to carry out security or infrastructure audits can be done 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 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 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.

Nowadays, many companies want to experiment with the public cloud, but due to business or industry needs, they seek not to neglect their private cloud.

Why public cloud?

There is no need to be frightened by the word “public”, since being in the cloud doesn't mean that your data will be available to everyone, quite the contrary. They receive this adjective because they are virtual resources provided and accessible through the open Internet, by companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, among others. These companies have secure data centers capable of withstanding catastrophes.

Considering integrating cloud resources into your architecture brings multiple benefits: they allow you to experiment with various technologies at a low cost, resources can be consumed on demand, without excluding paying for your resources in advance, it's 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 your assets, data, storage and application execution to the cloud. And this fear (if you don't manage enough information) is understandable: uploading everything to the cloud, located on 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's why there is an alternative that is becoming more 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 components on premise (private cloud) and components in the public cloud. It allows you to mix the best of the private cloud (complying with regulations, having control over data center security, etc.) with the best of cloud computing: large computing capacity, infinite storage, consumption of resources on demand, lower cost and scalability, among others.

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

Optimize and streamline on-premise resources

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.

Orchestrate on-premise processes with cloud resources

Many organizations have applications, databases, CRM, or others, and that are deployed in their private clouds. At the same time, there are business processes that are being executed manually, but that you could definitely carry out 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 technology that they haven't used before, without jeopardizing their current infrastructure, they can use cloud resources on demand specific to the task they want to perform. For example, if you want to experiment with containers, you can use a cloud server and then discard it, without the need to intervene in your physical infrastructure.

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

Instead of constantly increasing the hardware in your data center, with all the costs and operations that this may entail (for example, risk analysis time, downtime, time needed to setup physical resources, 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 customers create digital products and services, where the protagonists are data. This leads us to solve challenges with common denominators:

• Migrating services from private clouds to public clouds
• Data extraction from multiple sources, transformation (purging) and loading (from one side to the other).
• Flow monitoring and orchestration of data between multiple systems and architectures
• Improve scalability and productivity by designing and implementing architectures and microservices
• Data storage capacity
• Data analysis capability
• Data transactional capacity
  
  

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

We recommend that you dare to test 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? Looking to take your current hybrid cloud to the next level? If these questions identify you, please contact us, we'd love to meet you!

Ready to take your technology 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 promote the digital transformation of your company.