Hybrid Cloud: The Case for an Application Centric Migration Strategy
Dr. Andreas M.
CEO @ SIX ERP | We build powerful ERP, CRM, HRM, Warehousing, Manufacturing & Purchase Management solutions for SMBs & global enterprises. Driving efficiency, automation & business growth. Let’s connect!
As more and organizations deploy and migrate applications to the cloud, success of migration depends largely on adopting an application centric approach. An app-centric strategy allows you to maintain control over your cloud applications - providing the same availability, performance, and security services across your hybrid environment.
Corporate decision takers see the cloud as a key business enabler. The promise of high availability and scaling cloud solutions offer agility and operational efficiency, which is the key factor to potentially transform businesses. However, as organizations deploy applications or migrate them to the cloud, more technical oriented staff might think that they sacrifice control over their apps for some invisible benefits of the cloud.
A well prepared application centric approach allows businesses to maintain full control over cloud applications, provides the same availability, performance, and security services across a hybrid environment. Businesses should have full confidence of knowing that the policies governing their current applications in a data centre will, in the same extent, extend to the cloud. With the app-centric approach, businesses can protect their applications while maintaining the agility, efficiency and scalability that the cloud provides.
The Data Centre (R)Evolution
According to the recent Right Scale 2015 State of the Cloud Report [1], 82 percent of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy or will implement such within the next 12 months, which is an increase up from 74 percent in 2014, which also proves that organizations are increasingly deploying and migrating applications to public and private cloud environments.
Many of these enterprises are looking at the cloud primarily to drive agility and save cost. However, in most cases organizations must avoid trading off control in order to gain these benefits. For organizations building a private cloud there will be challenges while in the transit phase which will be smaller or larger, depending on the cloud infrastructure platform architecture chosen. Also if software-defined technologies such like SDN need to be implemented, the issue of interoperability and integration of services must be addressed ahead of implementation.
Meanwhile, the mobile workforces continue to grow on a global scale. The resulting effect is that traditional data centre perimeters are dissolving, as users start accessing applications from a many different environments, which include corporate on premise, private and public clouds, and SaaS apps, on an even bigger variety of corporate and personal computers and devices.
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