What does hybrid cloud mean for your data center?
The rise of the public cloud has meant the opportunity to take advantage of its benefits, such as flexibility and ability to scale. But understanding which apps to keep on-premises is difficult. A hybrid cloud approach allows the flexibility of public cloud as well as the security and control of on-premises.
Trends impacting data center and cloud
Application evolution
Modern apps are becoming less data center dependent. They have become more mobile-enabled and hyperscale in architecture through modular and highly distributed microservices. This has created an explosion of new end points that IT must account for in terms of management and security and has increased the need for automated network infrastructure.
Application location
Traditional IT could support and manage all users and applications safely behind the confines of the on-premises data center. Modern IT organizations now have to deal with users, applications, and workloads that operate in public, managed, and private cloud environments.
Infrastructure management
The modern enterprise has become more user-centric vs. IT-centric. This has led to a greater diversity of users who have significant influence and control over technology decisions. The need to simplify network infrastructure for these new decision makers, which include include lines of business, app developers, and DevOps teams, have become essential.
Mitigating risk
More app locations mean more exposed attack surfaces. With DevOps and LoB directly touching and provisioning infrastructure, it has opened the door to more risk from human errors since attacks are more sophisticated than ever before.
Benefits of a hybrid cloud data center approach
Constantly learning
With a hybrid cloud data center, you are able to constantly monitor your network, applications, user behavior, and policy compliance. It can look for trends, changes, and anomalies wherever your workload resides. These insights help turn the constant flow of data into information your network can use.
Constantly adapting
By using integrated analytics and open programmable interfaces, the data center can optimize your infrastructure and adapt to the intent of users and apps. When you can automate and simplify network infrastructure, you can make sure the data center and hybrid cloud environment can quickly change.
Constantly protecting
In a multitenant environment, you are forced to troubleshoot, segment, and conduct forensic modeling to ensure compliance throughout your hybrid cloud. By using multilayer apps and threat intelligence collection, your data center is able to keep attackers at bay.
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