A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally. Ideally, the hybrid approach allows a business to take advantage of the scalability and cost-effectiveness that a public cloud computing environment offers while running mission-critical applications and data on a secure private cloud.
As this space matures, the hybrid cloud will be the most common deployment model of cloud computing for organizations to adopt. You may actually be using this model in some capacity already. For instance, you may be using Customer Relationship Management in the cloud (Salesforce.com) and/or SPAM protection (positini.com) while your Enterprise Resource Planning system (SAP) and your mail server (Exchange) are internal.
Daymark Solutions can help you determine if your workload is suited for private or public cloud consumption by considering key factors such as:
- Security and compliance
- Application, server, network and storage dependencies
- High performance and real time user accessibility
- Mission criticality
- Intellectual property value of data being created, stored or archived
More important, Daymark will bring clarity to your deliberations as you evaluate the new services and products that continue to flood the market with promises to solve many of IT’s daily headaches. Daymark dedicates experienced resources to actively research, test and evaluate these products, and then shares our objective analyses with you. This allows you to leverage the time and effort Daymark invests in product validation to make the right decision for your organization
Daymark Solutions can help you navigate the hybrid cloud computing model while steering you confidently through the fog.