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Hybrid Cloud Adoption: Best Practices for a Smooth Transition

By Rahi

May 23, 2023 - 6 min

Hybrid Cloud Adoption: Best Practices for a Smooth Transition

Hybrid cloud adoption represents the fusion of private and public cloud resources, creating an integrated, flexible, and powerful IT environment. Better flexibility, performance, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency make hybrid cloud adoption the most popular choice for businesses. Hybrid environments combine several locations and devices such as on-premises data centers, colocations, cloud and edge data centers.

As technology advances, the hybrid cloud is rapidly becoming the go-to solution for organizations of all sizes looking to optimize their IT resources. However, transitioning to a hybrid cloud environment can be challenging.

Successful hybrid cloud adoption requires careful planning and execution. Insufficient planning can prove to be more costly in terms of money, resources, and compromised data. This article outlines some best practices to ensure a smooth transition during your hybrid cloud adoption journey.

Successful cloud migration, like any other business activity, requires careful planning and execution. If your business is ill-prepared to take on the challenges of cloud migration, it could prove to be a costly exercise for you in terms of money, resources, and most importantly, your precious data. However, knowing about these challenges will help you prepare a roadmap for a successful transition.

1. Assess Existing Infrastructure and Understand Your Business Needs

Before embarking on the journey of hybrid cloud adoption, it’s crucial to conduct a detailed scope of the project. A careful evaluation of business needs, an assessment of existing IT infrastructure and support. Calculate the cost of maintaining legacy systems and pinpoint areas that require optimization. This evaluation will help businesses identify weak areas and existing opportunities with workloads and applications that would benefit from being in a public cloud, and those that should remain in a private cloud for security or compliance reasons. This initial step will go a long way in providing a clear roadmap for any hybrid cloud adoption strategy.

At Rahi, a basic cloud assessment undergoes the following:

  • Installation of virtualization inventory tools for data collection and analysis,
  • Review the inventory and cost analysis for both on-premises and cloud use cases,
  • Overview of those findings and suggestions for moving forward.

2. Establish Your Security and Compliance Requirements

Security is often one of the primary concerns for businesses considering hybrid cloud solutions. The hybrid cloud environment provides businesses with the opportunity to protect sensitive data from being compromised. Businesses can choose where to place workloads and data based on compliance, audit, policy, or security requirements.

Businesses that run in a highly regulated sector like healthcare, financial services, and government may require more consideration. Distributed environments need to be compliance and security audits need to be conducted. To address security challenges, determine which data and applications are sensitive and must be protected, and ensure your hybrid cloud solution can meet these requirements. Generally, hybrid cloud security consists of three components: physical, technical, and administrative.

3. Invest in Integration

Without proper integration, your public and private cloud resources won’t be able to work together seamlessly, which can lead to inefficiencies and potential security issues. It is essential to deploy a cloud management platform (CMP) that will integrate multiple tools for monitoring, managing, and securing applications and workloads across multiple clouds. This can improve security and regulatory compliance across multiple cloud instances with end-to-end monitoring, reporting, and logging. Compliance can be met through compatibility with all public cloud platforms.

4. Plan for Scalability

One of the primary benefits of hybrid cloud solutions is scalability. As your business grows, your hybrid cloud environment should be able to grow with it. Dividing workloads among servers to scale up or down up with business needs, enables businesses to maintain business continuity while achieving maximum performance. Computer capability, such as storage or processing power, can be scaled based on business requirements. IT has dynamic control to meet changing needs without sacrificing the speed and operational effectiveness.

5. Foster Skills Development

Hybrid cloud adoption IT teams need to be equipped with the skills needed to manage and optimize your hybrid cloud environment. Investing in training or hiring additional resources should be considered.

6. Continual Assessment and Optimization

Hybrid cloud adoption is an ongoing process. Continual assessment of the hybrid cloud environment makes it necessary to ensure alignment with business requirements and goals. A regular review of performance, costs, and security can identify areas for improvement.

At Rahi Systems, we understand that hybrid cloud adoption can be a complex process. We’re here to help guide you through this transition, providing the expertise and support you need to make your hybrid cloud adoption as smooth and successful as possible. Our team of experts can help you navigate the challenges and take full advantage of the benefits that hybrid cloud solutions offer.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can assist with your hybrid cloud adoption journey.

Author

  • Rahi is an independently operated subsidiary of Wesco Distribution, Inc. Wesco is a Fortune 200 Company with Annual Revenues of more than USD $19B, 19,000+ Employees, and operates in 50+ countries globally. Rahi was acquired by Wesco in November of 2022. With warehouses and offices in 50+ countries, Rahi offers the advantage of IOR services, local currency billing, and RMA services - helping businesses operate efficiently and successfully at any location. Rahi combines its global reach and in-depth analysis services to understand clients’ business goals, IT requirements, and operations while placing them on the journey toward success.

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