Customer requirements for a hybrid cloud

One of the dynamically developing direction of the cloud services market today is the so-called hybrid clouds. The main advantage of this service is the opportunity to seriously save on the costs of developing your own infrastructure. In addition, hybrid clouds serve as a buffer of computational power at times of high loads. At the same time, the user gets a lot of tasks.

Creating a single control panel for working frameworks and tools

Most cloud providers own their own management processes. A number of large IT manufacturers offer such integrated solutions. After their implementation, the customer receives a ready-made self-service portal with a set of running services. The only problem may be that cloud services can not be controlled locally, whereas for many IT professionals the ability to monitor in real-time workflows or connect to the ITSM platform, to make the necessary entries in the configuration database can play a decisive role.

Choosing a cloud provider

This is not an easy task, because the transfer to the cloud of the critical part of the IT infrastructure takes time, and its inaccessibility for even a few hours can cause significant damage to the company's business. As for the choice, the first thing to do is to take into account the workload.

The obvious advantages of public clouds:

- attractively low price;

- speed and simplicity of the deployment of services;

- effective replacement of capital costs by operating costs.

A serious shortcoming of the public cloud is a lower level of security and control compared to the private cloud.

Create a spreading protocol between current solutions and new digital initiatives

Digital transformation makes adjustments to the business strategies of companies, forcing them to move in a forced mode. Acceleration is often associated with risks - vendors that are in step with the times, will have to balance the stack of applications accumulated over many years and digitalization programs. What is meant by that? This software is a new generation, which is developed with the help of microservices, containers and API-connections. Enterprises can create similar new APIs for legacy systems and then receive data or work with them in the cloud.