Become future fit with hybrid cloud

Business benefits

The business case for cloud is now more compelling than ever. Enterprises are increasingly forced to adapt their IT strategies to the challenges of managing a hybrid workforce, as well as support the drive in looking for new ways to find sustainable competitive advantage by embracing technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT and cloud services.

Innovation

Cloud adoption can open a spectrum of new opportunities at far greater speed and with less risk than ever before.  With access to the latest public cloud services and advanced analytics to mine value from your data, you can gain competitive advantage with innovations across:

• IT operations
• Data strategy
• Customer engagement
• Security
• Product development

Collaboration

Cloud-based systems enhance collaboration, as files and data can be accessed anywhere, on any device and at any time. With remote working becoming more commonplace, organisations are refocusing on ensuring collaboration can take place seamlessly and conveniently.

Financial - Cost Control

Profitability can increase through both cost control and revenue increases.  When your applications and data are in the cloud, you only pay for what you use.  You no longer need to invest in hardware or worry about the costs associated with maintenance and security.

However, when evaluating the cost of cloud, it’s essential to have a detailed understanding of your current and projected cloud costs to ensure they won’t spiral out of control. Learn more in our blog series on evaluating the cost of cloud.

A pay-per-use model is also available for on-premises infrastructure, giving you cloud economics wherever you run your workloads. This gives you the ultimate flexibility to run your workloads based on their best fit, taking into consideration everything opposite.

Scalability

A consumption-based model means you no longer have to worry about investing in sufficient server resources, such as storage. You automatically expand or contract your public cloud services based on your needs at the time, while allowing for spikes, like report generation and payroll that often impact on a data centre’s performance.

Security

Public Cloud based security services are innovating at pace in order to keep up with a rapidly changing threat landscape. These can protect both your cloud and on-premises environments, with threat intelligence that is constantly updated by security experts.  Security, backup and disaster recovery can be outsourced to experts in the field, freeing your IT staff to concentrate on business that adds value.

Agility

Achieve greater agility when you can deploy any workload, anywhere – across physical and virtual environments.  Get products to market faster, and achieve a high velocity of change through DevSecOps practices.

Performance & Reliability

Cloud platforms are constantly being updated and improved. Cloud vendors compete to provide a service that is fast, responsive, secure and reliable. With a hybrid cloud system, you don’t have to keep upgrading – it's done for you, behind the scenes. The regular CAPEX crunch becomes a manageable, predictable OPEX item.

Sustainability

Carbon neutral setups are very costly and difficult to implement in privately managed data centres. Tech giants operating public cloud services have the scale and specialisation to invest in carbon neutrality. Multi-cloud and hybrid strategies can also leverage this benefit.