Hybrid cloud environments

Introduction

In today’s business landscape, companies distribute their workloads across on-premises and public cloud locations to deliver uninterrupted services regardless of any disruptions. To guarantee the consistent availability of business-critical applications, more and more businesses are considering switching from private cloud storage, which is running your own servers for flexibility and security, to public cloud storage, which is cost-effective and reliable. But there’s a middle ground called the hybrid cloud, which gives you the best of both worlds: it’s secure, flexible, and efficient.

Problem

In today’s business landscape, companies distribute their workloads across on-premises and public cloud locations to deliver uninterrupted services regardless of any disruptions. To guarantee the consistent availability of business-critical applications, more and more businesses are considering switching from private cloud storage, which is running your own servers for flexibility and security, to public cloud storage, which is cost-effective and reliable. But there’s a middle ground called the hybrid cloud, which gives you the best of both worlds: it’s secure, flexible, and efficient. Traditional hybrid cloud clusters usually employ different over-engineered and overprovisioned hardware and software sets, which isn’t very efficient. They are costly to obtain, expensive to maintain, and may lead to failover downtimes, management chaos, security compromises, and resource idleness, along with arising concerns regarding security, ease of management, and availability. These issues prompt businesses to seek a solution for integrating and unifying their on-premises and cloud resources into a coherent environment, which comes with its own set of challenges. It’s essential to distribute production resources across different locations and the public cloud while maintaining the organization’s security protocols. While most public cloud offerings provide their own management tools, IT professionals often prefer tools they are familiar with. Additionally, as hybrid cloud is frequently employed for disaster recovery purposes, those solutions must be capable of managing data transfer and ensuring fault tolerance in the event of a complete on-premises disaster.

Solution

To address all these challenges effectively, StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA) offers hybrid cloud support for both AWS and Azure, synergically bridging the strengths of both private and public cloud environments. Using unified prebuilt and preconfigured hardware platforms on-premises and integrated and packaged public cloud deployments allows businesses to achieve scalability and cost-efficiency for their business-critical infrastructure while ensuring security compliance. Deployment and integration are done by skilled engineers, while further management can be done using familiar and convenient tools.

Conclusion

StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA) ensures 24/7/365 application uptime by introducing unified, integrated, and cost-effective hardware and software platforms for uncompromised hybrid cloud support. Every software and hardware appliance is thoroughly tailored to current requirements to ensure IT infrastructure is utilized at its highest potential and no resources are left on standby. Along with convenient management tools and AI/ML-powered failure prediction technology backed by an outright support umbrella, the StarWind HCA becomes a perfect solution for maintaining business continuity across on-premises and public cloud that costs less, requires little to no time to install, saving effort and money and eliminating business losses caused by services downtime.