KNOW THE SMARTEST PATH TO A HYBRID CLOUD STRATEGY

Assess your business objectives

Key Business-Driven Reasons To Embark Upon A Hybrid Cloud Journey

  • Private cloud to run mission-critical applications and public cloud for business continuity

  • Private cloud for routine business and public cloud for seasonal spikes

  • Public cloud needed for anticipated business expansion

  • Private cloud for application development and public cloud for elasticity testing

Opportunities offered by Hybrid Cloud

  • Scale up or down: On-demand

  • Light-speed operations: With improved agility

  • High efficiency: With a seamless movement of workloads between private and public cloud

  • Data security: Policy-based

  • Optimal resource utilisation: With chargebacks and showbacks

  • Encourage innovation: Build new products without incurring infrastructure costs

IT Human Resource Readiness

Ensure you have the right people qualified to support hybrid cloud rollout. Some of the HR areas critical for cloud's success are

  • Cloud Orchestration Management

  • Software Development

  • IT Service Management

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Evaluate cost parameters

  • Identify data security or privacy regulations & associated costs

  • Ascertain the costs involved in hiring specialised talent

  • Cost of deployment, management and maintenance of hybrid cloud infrastructure

  • Costs linked to legacy application support, integrations and new development

  • Potential costs involved in using third-party cloud management tools

HYBRID CLOUD: READINESS CHECKLIST

  • Thorough cost-benefit analysis based on business objectives

  • Create ROI blueprint

  • Carry out server consolidation (if not done so far)

  • Ensure you have people with necessary skills

  • Benchmark IT assets in terms of performance, availability and scalability

Build a strong VIRTUALISATION foundation first

  • Obtain visualized efficiency, scalabilty, and manageability of your existing infrastructure

  • Start evolving your data centre into a software-defined infrastructure (SDI)

  • Extend pooling and automation to compute, storage and networking resources and services

Compute VIRTUALISATION

  • Create a virtual version of computing hardware, operating systems, or other resources

  • Create centralised, consolidated and shareable infrastructure

  • Easy to provision compute resource pools independent of hardware

  • Simplify licensing

  • Improve manageability

  • Reduce costs

Compute VIRTUALISATION: Recommended Technology Stack

Intel® TXT Xeon® Scalable Processors

  • Multicore compute capacity for demanding virtual workloads
  • Secure transactions for data centre and cloud with Intel AES-NI standard
  • Manage the security of virtualised workloads and protect against malicious software attacks with Intel® TXT root of trust technology

VMware vSphere: Industry leading virtualisation software

  • Optimised for Intel® Xeon® processors
  • Host and manage enterprise applications end-to-end

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STORAGE VIRTUALISATION

  • Pool physical storage from multiple network storage devices

  • Create a single virtual storage device

  • Centralised storage management

  • Improved data access

  • Increase storage utilisation

  • Simplify maintenance

  • Reduce costs

Storage Virtualisation: Recommended Technology Stack

Storage Virtualisation Technology

Intel® Solid State Drive

  • Provision and manage storage for virtual machines (VMs)
  • Intelligent, pooled storage solutions
  • Storage agility, scalability, and efficiency
  • Increased throughput and low latency

    • Intel® Solid State Drive

    • High-performance storage
    • Reliable
    • Energy efficient
    • Data protection
    • High capacity

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    Network virtualisation

    • Combine hardware and software network resources and network functionality

    • Create a virtual network: A single, software-based administrative entity

    • Streamline application development and testing

    • Improve network performance and manageability

    Network virtualisation: Recommended Technology Stack

    10, 25, 40 Gigabit Intel Ethernet converged network adapters, virtual switches, and virtual local area networks (VLANs)

    • Get "big pipe” for unified networking
    • Dynamically provision and scale network traffic

    VMware vSphere: Industry leading virtualisation software

    • Deliver networking and security entirely in software
    • Enable virtual cloud network
    • Provide end-to-end connectivity for apps and data

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    Now that your data centre infrastructure is geared to take the full advantage of a hybrid cloud setup, you can take the plunge!