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Cape Town - Many businesses are leaning towards hybrid configurations that utilise a private cloud foundation, but combine it with the strategic use of public cloud services, says Karl Reed, chief marketing and solutions officer at Elingo.
“Hybrid cloud allows multiple users to access the same cloud, but outsources certain processes, infrastructures and functions to public cloud, while the more critical systems are kept in an in-house private cloud.
“While hybrid cloud is, technically, a best-of-both-worlds approach, there are still numerous factors to be taken into consideration before deciding that it’s the right solution for your business,” he said.
“For example, in critical systems, sensitive or confidential information has to be closely monitored. Not only could data leaks incur penalties and fines – as per the recently enacted Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) – but the exposure of trade secrets could be extremely detrimental.”
It’s extremely important for a business to identify how secure its various environments need to be and which, if any of them, are suited to public cloud solutions.
“Cloud promises saving through reduced cost of ownership, operating- rather than capital-expenditure and greater flexibility, but a wide range of variables have to be taken into account in order to assess what model of cloud storage is the most appropriate for the data in question,” he said.
Location, internal IT personnel, confidentiality of information, and the nature of business are all important factors that greatly influence whether public, private or hybrid could should be utilised and for what.
“Hybrid cloud allows multiple users to access the same cloud, but outsources certain processes, infrastructures and functions to public cloud, while the more critical systems are kept in an in-house private cloud.
“While hybrid cloud is, technically, a best-of-both-worlds approach, there are still numerous factors to be taken into consideration before deciding that it’s the right solution for your business,” he said.
“For example, in critical systems, sensitive or confidential information has to be closely monitored. Not only could data leaks incur penalties and fines – as per the recently enacted Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) – but the exposure of trade secrets could be extremely detrimental.”
It’s extremely important for a business to identify how secure its various environments need to be and which, if any of them, are suited to public cloud solutions.
“Cloud promises saving through reduced cost of ownership, operating- rather than capital-expenditure and greater flexibility, but a wide range of variables have to be taken into account in order to assess what model of cloud storage is the most appropriate for the data in question,” he said.
Location, internal IT personnel, confidentiality of information, and the nature of business are all important factors that greatly influence whether public, private or hybrid could should be utilised and for what.
