By
Mark Davies
It feels like it’s always been the
same old story for the majority of businesses on their cloud journeys. Or
sometimes the lack of journey.
They reach a stage where a certain amount
of their data and applications have been successfully migrated to the cloud, while
the rest - the ones that feel can’t be moved -remain on-prem.
Once those basic applications are
moved to the cloud this should be their chance to take stock and see what else
could be done to make their IT more efficient or cost-effective.
Cue head-scratching and deliberations
on how they can best utilise both on-prem equipment and cloud based services.
But having applications running in
two different places but connecting to each other has become very achievable
especially with the advent of open 'apis' (application programming interfaces), which allow applications to communicate with each other.
The reality is that today, more and
more businesses believe a blend of cloud and on-prem is a desirable end-position.
They’re sticking with their hybrid
IT solution because it gives them the best of both worlds.
What still differs though are the
reasons why businesses get to, or are heading towards, a particular hybrid
position.
For many, full cloud migration hasn’t
been an option because of the many different security requirements or
compliance challenges.
Complexity resolved
Yet in our experience at Westcoast,
and through working with the partners we do, the most common reason why
enterprises - and SMBs - don’t go for total cloud is the complexity of their
existing on-prem solution.
Yes, they can take services like
Office 365, SharePoint, data analytics, and so on, to the cloud with relative ease.
But transferring that business-critical, on-prem CRM application or that age
old bespoke solution that’s been quietly effective for more than a decade now?
That’s just not going to happen
easily.
Having the ‘best of both worlds’ in
the solutions that are available are becoming more and more prevalent in the
marketplace and vendors are seeing that there isn’t a one size fits all for the
majority of businesses.
There is some complexity in tying
together solutions that sit in two different locations but, more and more, this
complexity is being removed. This enables businesses to leverage the cloud with
all its benefits of scalability, flexibility and cost effectiveness alongside
traditional on premise solutions to allow that sweating of assets where it is
required to do so.
Combine the two and get something special
Combining the two ways of working
together can really pay dividends for businesses. Working with a partner that
can help you understand how this can be done can take the headache and the
complexity away.
At Westcoast, our knowledge and
capability around hybrid IT – including our expertise of Microsoft platforms
such as Azure, HPE’s Hyper Converged solutions, Lenovo and HP hardware together
with niche cloud services providers puts us in a unique position to be able to provide
our partners with everything they need to deliver a hybrid IT solution suitable
for their customers.
To sell Hybrid IT with maximum
impact, take a look at our training video
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