In the ever-evolving world of cloud computing, hybrid cloud provisioning has emerged as a powerful solution that combines the benefits of both public and private clouds. In 2024, the global public cloud infrastructure market is projected to reach $180 billion, continuing its rapid growth.
With businesses increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies, leveraging private, public, and hybrid clouds, the flexibility to scale infrastructure based on demand is more critical than ever. This allows companies to deliver business-critical services more efficiently, offering real-time access, and reducing resource management needs. The rise in cloud adoption also reflects the expanding role of digital transformation in accelerating productivity and enabling agile, scalable IT environments.
The biggest challenges businesses continue to face is how to migrate legacy applications to the cloud environment while also developing and deploying new applications that tap into the power of cloud services. At the same time, they have to deal with the current services and IT budget uncertainties from needing to maintain a positive balance sheet.
Hybrid Cloud Provisioning, Let’s Get Critical
If you are planning on migrating to or developing new services in the cloud, you need to be aware of, and manage a number of critical service aspects of what we call Hybrid Cloud Provisioning. These include:
– Platform and Service Brokerage
– Hybrid Cloud Provisioning Service
– Service Configuration and Integration
– Controlled Transition to the Cloud
So let’s cover some of the primary features and benefits of hybrid cloud provisioning in a little more detail:
Platform and Service Brokerage
As the name suggests, brokerage is how you integrate and manage work across different hybrid environments. This includes the creation, integration and automation of data workflows across on-premise and cloud technologies. This allows teams to ingest and process data from platforms including SQL, Hadoop, Spark, EMR, Snowflake, RedShift and other data intensive technologies.
This is time-consuming to manage on a manual basis. Let’s not forget fraught with potential errors and failures due to the complexity of disparate sources. The focus should be on how you can securely automate data workflows across all on-premise, cloud and containerised environments – true hybrid cloud services.
Hybrid Cloud Provisioning Service
How do you coordinate the deployment and provisioning of applications in hybrid cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure? How do you ensure that services you run up are actively managed, controlled and shut down?
We’ve worked with clients where their cloud provisioning service resulted in orphan servers, storage and redundant services continuing to run. This resulted in associated costs accruing in an unmanaged and uncontrolled manner.
The answer? Integrate and automate the complex infrastructure, application and data workflows across your multi-cloud services with a platform approach across the complete service stack. This effectively, gives you a single viewpoint of everything.
Service Configuration and Integration
One benefit of hybrid cloud provision is the ability to automatically run common operating system, database and application maintenance tasks and actions with no need to go to each and every instance of your cloud services. Another is the ability to simplify the workflows across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with AWS and Azure. The result makes them appear to be completely integrated.
Controlled Transition to the Cloud
As you start your cloud transformation journey, remember you need to be able to seamlessly coordinate and integrate legacy applications, operating system activity and web API interactions.
If That All Seems Too Much
At MDB, we provide a range of digital transformation services designed to elevate your business to the next level. Our sister company, Ortom8, offers workflow orchestration solutions that seamlessly integrate across diverse hybrid cloud environments. With streamlined provisioning for Amazon Web Services® (AWS) and Microsoft® Azure®, Ortom8 supports popular services to enable efficient, scalable cloud operations tailored to your infrastructure needs, including:
- AWS Step Functions
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Batch
- Amazon S3
- Azure Logic Apps
- Azure Batch
Get in touch and find out more about how we bring tangible and sustainable benefits to your business.
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