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The Switch to the Hybrid Cloud is Progressing Globally

hybrid cloudAccording to a study by Cicero Group and Veritas Technologies, the private cloud, and public cloud alliance continues to grow in business.

Three-quarters of companies worldwide continue their adoption of hybrid cloud, by definition involving the private cloud and public cloud. This is the salient point of a recent study sponsored by Cicero Group Technologies and Veritas.

The results show the importance of a sophisticated corporate strategy for information management and security. For the study, Veritas and Cicero Group interviewed more than 1,800 worldwide IT executives with more than 500 employees and managed by at least 75 terabytes of data.

This study was especially noted the pace of switches to different kinds of cloud and motivations. This flip-flop now applies to all types of data, including critical data, which implies to adopt a real strategy and real security.

Nearly 38% of the volume of data is currently housed in a private cloud (+7% in one year) against 28% in a public cloud (+ 18%). In Japan and Brazil, it is 50% of the volume that is currently in the public cloud. 74% of companies use multiple cloud providers, and 23% use at least four suppliers. It increases the pressure on IT departments to secure the data on all of these environments.

In the breakdown by sectors, the manufacturing industry is in the first place. The manufacturing industry takes 30 percent of their workloads in the public cloud. Second place goes to telecommunications companies with 24 percent, followed by health care and finance, each with 23 percent. The public sector constitutes 16 percent cloud adoption.

More than a third of respondents cite cost as the main argument for the public cloud use. However, security remains the main obstacle. Half of respondents named security and backup architectures as the main reason to avoid the public cloud. Nearly 41 percent expect an improvement by introducing a hybrid cloud – which is internationally the highest percentage.

Security is also the most important factor for the satisfaction of enterprises with public cloud offerings. Providers of public cloud solutions should communicate their benefits in terms of safety.

A significant number of respondents indicated that they would always run certain workloads within the enterprise and do not move to the cloud. 28 percent cited in this context named backup and recovery, 27 percent disaster recovery and 26 percent archiving or data warehousing.

About 81 percent of companies not using cloud in the implementation and ongoing support to the services of service providers. The heterogeneous and complex composition of cloud solutions is therefore likely to remain a challenge for IT departments.

Companies are increasingly using heterogeneous solutions. From the perspective of information management, this can increase the complexity. Organizations must be more vigilant than ever to see blind spots of IT and potential safety issues. Only way they can avoid unplanned downtime or even an information crisis.

The study recommends several steps – the organizations should help to remain agile to minimize the risks inherent in the implementation of hybrid cloud environments. IT professionals should focus more on information management rather than on infrastructure.

What SMEs Need to Consider When Choosing Cloud Services

logoThe selection of cloud services has grown over the past years in overwhelmingly large dimensions. But, as always when introducing new systems arises in connection with cloud services, the question of how the initial situation is where you want to go and how this is best achieved.

These considerations make first completely detached to particular services and offerings. The aim is usually to optimize existing structures and processes. A change in the cloud would result in the otherwise little sense.

At the end, you should be able to answer the question: What are the benefits cloud services over the present situation? Orientate yourself not to platitudes like ‘easy maintenance’, ‘cheap to run’, ‘global access’ or ‘scalability’, which is full of stories related to the cloud. It’s very individual to you and your company: What have you concretely from the cloud?

Important criteria in the selection

Among the most important criteria is one of privacy. At least some of your company departments deal with confidential customer data. Then there is the question whether and how these are banned in the cloud. Very important: Where are the servers of the provider? What privacy laws apply there? And who owns the data you provide on other servers?

When choosing a provider, check the Service Level Agreement (SLA). There you will find detailed information on the contractual and service relationship between you and the cloud provider.

In addition to these aspects, it also encompasses the scalability and availability. Besides data, the latter is probably one of the most important criteria for choosing a provider. Because you set for your workday on an application that is only accessible via the Internet, the service provider must ensure that this is always possible reach.

You may ask the providers as ask how the availability is guaranteed. Reputable providers have nothing to hide and answer this question usually tagged with redundancy. How important is the support of the party, also depends on the expertise from in-house? Are the technicians of the provider providing around the clock by phone, e-mail or chat support? Is there an emergency service in the evenings and weekends? And what does this service cost?

The cost is also crucial in deciding for or against a proposal. Pricing should you of course still be clear and fit for your business.

Moving to the cloud is not a rush job, because when a wrong decision is made, it is often challenging and expensive for you to roll back. You often not immediately noticed that you have chosen the wrong provider or the wrong product.

MadeIT provides maximized efficiently and minimized costs. MadeIT meets your company’s specific needs and is comprised of security, bandwidth, storage, and power. The Systems Architecture staff at MadeIT helps our client build a solid, redundant and robust solution by either using the client’s suggested engineering or by working together with our team to develop a customized cloud solution to suit their needs.

MadeIT Infrastructure Management Minimizes Your Risk While Improving The Service

logoSwap out every day administrative processes and minimize your risk while enhancing the service. Reduce your risk through proven techniques, tools and competent of MadeIT resource and take advantage of our expertise to strengthen your customer relationships through improved service performance.

The skills of MadeIT in the areas of infrastructure and application management allow you to outsource the day administrative processes associated with the provision of business applications and the underlying infrastructure, to a trusted partner – including servers, operating systems, network devices, storage, firewalls, and desktops.

These services support all devices, anywhere, without compromising brand, device type or geographic location. Also, MadeIT supports hybrid deployments (hosting, colocation, cloud) and offers service and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Features and Benefits

  • Proactive 24/7 monitoring
  • Operation utilizes global resources and leading service technologies
  • Real-time control and analysis of historical trends
  • Helpdesk for infrastructure and application management
  • Proven best practices for thousands of customers and internal projects
  • Improved stability, control, and transparency
  • Reduces risk, reducing downtime and improving business continuity
  • Management of servers, storage, networking, security and disaster recovery
  • Improves service and the user experience
  • Managed costs and budget compliance through automated, less burdensome management processes at the same time improving the efficiency and capacity planning
  • Infrastructure and administrative operations grow through economies of scale
  • Predictable and flexible cost models that are tailored to your business needs

Only with absolute control over the entire system, the IT department can minimize the risks. The strict access controls and modern encryption method used by MadeIT fulfill these requirements and also ensure that only authorized employees have access to the environment.

Access Control

Both for internal and external working groups can be defined specific resources within the cloud structures. It does not matter if it is private or hybrid cloud structures. Thus, a high flexibility for all employees is guaranteed.

Cost Control

The project costs of customers, employees or workgroups can be monitored comfortably and limit if necessary. Thus, it is impossible that these expenses can get out of hand.

Monitoring and Logging

All activities are logged. Incorrect behavior or fundamental errors can be as fast track, and the IT staff may initiate for the affected employees immediately appropriate training.

Multi-Cloud Management

The management of all used cloud environments is done centrally.

Multi-Tool Support

The unique configuration management enables support for multiple open sources as well as third party tools expanding the cloud structures during operation.

The other advantage of using MadeIT infrastructure management is that it provides not only a secure access to the cloud environment, especially for the timely provision of requested changes to the resources.