Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

What Is Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Hybrid cloud infrastructure combines public or private cloud environments with physical data centers (colocation data center or private) and edge deployments to create a unified data center strategy.

What Are the Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure?

• Security and compliance. Organizations that deal with sensitive data (banking, healthcare) can easily house that data in a physical data center while using cloud resources for workloads with less sensitivity.
• Flexibility. Hybrid cloud infrastructure provides the flexibility to switch between cloud and on-prem resources and to deploy edge data centers to reduce latency.

What Are Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Challenges?

Some common challenges with implementing and maintaining hybrid cloud infrastructure include:

• Fragmented or siloed telemetry between on-prem and cloud environments.
• Complexity of data center audits. Resolving discrepancies among asset records, capacity data and compliance and monitoring tools across cloud and on-prem environments makes audits more time-consuming and error-prone.
• Disparate disconnected management and monitoring tools. Different monitoring and management tools across cloud providers and on-prem infrastructure make it difficult to get a single, consistent view of the whole environment.

How Can DCIM Support Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure?

DCIM provides:

• Simplified management of all your assets and data across environments: Hybrid cloud infrastructure is distributed infrastructure: Whether your assets are in the cloud or on-prem, DCIM can take the raw readings and other telemetry data collected by your devices and transform the data into human-readable BI & analytics. For more on how DCIM can help you manage hybrid data center environments, watch our webinar.
• A single consistent tool for all your telemetry and asset management needs.