The hybrid cloud offers the powerful and extremely elastic infrastructure business, because they are able to adapt dynamically to the nee...
Dynamically manage resources in the era of data center extension, in fact, it means free from constraints and constraints to define an engine room high scalability, security and flexibility not only to device and application level but also governance. To choose the most suitable technology partner, in fact, the experts offer a number of useful information to understand the requirements and the criteria for analysis useful to make the right choice.
The starting point is certainly to have an accurate perception of what are the technologies that enable the hybrid clouds, which are different, starting from the configuration of the data center offered by the cloud providers that must be performing, with a well-dimensioned structures and with high levels of security, reliability and efficiency in the delivery of high quality services.
What are the technologies that enable hybrid clouds?
Another point of attention in the choice of cloud provider is how much of its data centers are attentive to the Green. The most virtuous suppliers, in fact, the search for energy saving solutions exploiting all the possibilities for optimization of consumption as, for example, use a 100% renewable sources. In this regard there are certifications: the "Renewable energy Guaranteed brand", for example, it ensures that the energy consumed by data centers is certified by a "Guarantee of Origin", an electronic certification confirming renewable origin of the sources used by the IGO qualified plants in accordance with the directive of the European Parliament 2009/28 / EC and by the Authority for electricity and gas ARG / elt 104/11.
What the suppliers ask for?
Companies must carefully evaluate the type and quality of services provided by the cloud provider, including the clauses in the supply contract, but also the structure, reliability and location of its data centers. Manage compliance with security and privacy regulations with regard to user information, for example, it must be a key. It is important to check the credentials and whether checks were made about their past.
Another item to be clarified is about where reside the encryption keys and who can have access so as to ascertain what happened to make the data at the end of the contract and if indeed the provider deletes all traces of the severance service. In the case of DaaS, for example, the supplier must be able to support endpoints of different type such as, for example, desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets. All these devices connect to the provider DaaS via the Internet, which means that the supplier's staff must manage various accounts related to the ports, connections, firewall, transport protocols and all other components necessary to safely facilitate the transfer of data.
In general, the cloud provider must ensure periodic system audits, apply security patches or maintain virus protection across all the systems in use. They can also make decisions based on considerations different from those that would make the En of a company compared to safety as, for example, do not of malware threats analysis to avoid slowing down and therefore not affect the performance. Therefore it is very important during contract definition check all these points.
More to what a company can do it alone, because they focus only on the technology, and in most cases use of data encryption mechanisms to protect information of their users may comply with compliance rules in all cases the cloud providers. Must not overlook the fact that, to be always in order and comply with compliance regulations, a company alone should hire staff, and create a team dedicated to solving daily problems of IT security.
The cloud service providers also make available to business users web portals, dashboards and control API (application programming interface) that allow you to integrate the cloud provider with the internal tool used by the company itself, so that they get complete visibility on the hybrid cloud. At this level, the problem becomes, if anything, to know if these APIs are proprietary to that provider, or are cross-platform, and therefore can be used to access cloud resources not only on its platform, but also on those of other cloud providers.
The level of flexibility of IT infrastructure reached by implementing a hybrid cloud allows you to blend the control and safety benefits of the private cloud with the scalability of the public cloud and scale economies. The path of dell'hybrid cloud deployment, however, is not simple and requires the establishment in IT towards a role of mediation and orchestration of the various cloud services. In this case there are various scenarios: engineers, for example, could implement programming interfaces poorly designed applications or use insecure applications. Again it is important to check with the supplier and put pen to paper every aspect which could then become the cause of poor service.
