Hybrid Cloud

It all depends on the resources you use. In general, with a hybrid solution, you get full access to dedicated resources and limited access to public cloud resources. So, if you rent a Dedicated Server, you get access to the management console for that server, and if you use a virtual server (IaaS), you get the public cloud administration console. The same goes for all other parts of hybrid infrastructure.

In multicloud, several public clouds from different service providers are used to build IT infrastructure. This is justified when it is necessary to get a set of functions that cannot be found on one platform, to eliminate dependence on one provider or to geographically distribute business applications and data in several regions to reduce the time it takes for end users to access them. Moreover, in multicloud, different platforms are often used for different tasks. In turn, hybrid cloud involves integrating one’s own IT infrastructure (including leased or hosted by a provider) with cloud infrastructure (both public and private clouds).

Our customers’ infrastructures are securely protected on physical and legal level, including the fact that third parties can never have access to them. We are responsible for ensuring the physical security and differentiation of clients’ resources, as well as 24/7/365 security events monitoring. Colobridge staff have no access to leased or hosted equipment, neither to private nor public clouds, and they act solely under NDA, a contract that helps prevent confidential information leakage.

The time it takes to implement the project depends on how complex the IT infrastructure is and such a timeframe is estimated on a case-by-case basis. For our part, we do our best to ensure that you can start using hybrid infrastructure as soon as possible.

In general, when ordering hybrid cloud, one takes the steps in the following order:

•  audit of existing IT infrastructure;
•  looking for the right solution or solutions to meet the client’s requirements;
•  business case and agreeing the project with the client;
•  deploying the hybrid environment;
•  testing.

Optionally, our technical experts can directly participate in migrating data to Colobridge platform, as well as provide administration services for the client’s hardware and software resources.

We recommend hybrid infrastructure in the following cases:

• in the future, the business intends to use cloud technologies as much as possible to accommodate its workloads, but is still not ready to give up local computing capacities;
• resources of the company’s local IT infrastructure are already insufficient, but the company does not plan to scale them and, accordingly, bear extra expenditures for purchasing equipment, licences, expanding the supporting infrastructure and hiring IT staff;
• a business occasionally faces increased loads because of an increased number of requests for its services and applications;
• a company plans to reduce the time it takes to launch new products on the market and needs a test environment to run them on an isolated platform;
• a business expands its business to several geographically remote regions and wants to prevent delays in working with different users’ services;
• a company is interested in building a hybrid infrastructure to deploy a backup facility where data can be backed up or business applications can be quickly brought up and running in case of a failure.

We will be guided primarily by the requirements set out for a particular project and offer a solution that will be best suited to your needs. When deploying virtualisation environment, we use such platforms as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, but in fact, when renting a dedicated server and placing your own equipment in our data centre, you can choose any other platform you like. Our experts will tell you more about choosing a platform – contact them right now in any way you prefer.