The Hybrid Cloud Model - has this been implemented in to your 2014 business plan?

There is no question about it; cloud adoption will continue to rise in 2014. However, it is the growth of the hybrid cloud that will be the focal point and the most significant IT-altering trend in cloud computing this year.

According to Gartner, half of large enterprises will be operating on a hybrid cloud model and more than half of IT budgets will be spent on cloud computing by 2017.

For those of you that do not know already, a hybrid cloud combines the best of both worlds: a single-tenant private architecture with a multi-tenant cloud. In other words, a mix of private internally used 'cloud', merged with external public cloud services.

So why are more and more businesses choosing a hybrid cloud model?

A hybrid cloud provides the security and performance benefits of the private cloud, along with the high availability and security of the public cloud.

However, the key and crucial motive that is attracting more and more businesses to implement a hybrid cloud model in to their business plan for 2014 is in fact the latest development of the smart server.

Tell me more… What are smart servers?

Smart servers are crucial to the next generation of hybrid environments. This is due to their simplicity, ease of deployment and speed of deployment in only a matter of minutes!

What’s more, a smart server accelerates the process of scaling up resources, while eliminating downtime and optimizing performance to create a better user experience. This is essential for businesses who want to be able to scale up and down, and flex in and out, in co-ordination with the growth and decline in sales demands, as well as the peaks and troughs in the market throughout the year.

As smart servers become more standard, cloud hosting will become an on-demand service where businesses can customize their infrastructure to their exact resource needs, accessing CPU, RAM and storage as and when they require it.

In a nut shell, a hybrid cloud model offers businesses the ability to combine public cloud services with local storage and application solutions that work for them by choosing the right combination of performance, reliability, security and cost that suits their exact business requirements.

Ok, so how can I manage the process?

Cristie's CloneManager™ software product provides users with the ability to continuously  move and manage their systems between and within private and public cloud offerings, as well as virtual and physical environments. It is the complete machine mobility tool which has been designed to provide users with a simple to use interface, and a speedy and reliable process. 

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Back to basics: What is Cloud Computing and what should it mean to you?

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Everybody seems to have a different definition when it comes to the ‘Cloud.’ When combined with ‘computing’ the meaning gets even vaster and more complicated. One of the simplest and narrowest descriptions of cloud computing is it being multiple virtual servers available over the internet. It is an updated version of utility computing, helping IT to create virtual data-centers from commodity servers on demand. Nowadays with such cloud-based interconnection, cloud computing could be more accurately described as ‘sky computing’ with many isolated clouds of services which IT customers must plug into individually. Cloud computing provides users with the ability to store digital files and access them from multiple internet-connected devices at any time and any place.

The growing popularity among businesses, who are adopting cloud computing, is the ability to increase capacity and add capabilities to fulfill IT needs without having to invest in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Storing data in the cloud means that hardware expenses and storage spaces are cut, which is why an increasing number of businesses are migrating their data-centers to the cloud.

According to the Cisco^® Global Cloud Index nearly two-thirds of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2017!

Have you made the transition yet?

Check out CloneManager™ the system migration software product. What makes CloneManager™ different from other migration tools currently on the market is that:

•      It can migrate in any direction (between Virtual, Cloud and Physical environments)
•      It will migrate the following OS machines: Windows Linux Solaris & AIX
•      It can customize and optimize the machine for the cloud environment DURING the cloud process
•      The CloneSync feature rapidly synchronizes a previously cloned machine with its source machine without having to repeat a full migration process
•      It has been developed using its own transport mechanism and web services which is resilient, robust, tolerant and fast for transfers of data from source to target machines (clones can be performed quickly and reliably over networks with large amounts of data and even with restricted bandwidths)

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The New Year’s Resolution for all masters of disasters!

Too many businesses should have won the master of disaster award last year after suffering from major IT downtime after a server failure. With the technology we have available today, there is no reason for companies to suffer from their systems being unavailable to use after a disaster strikes anymore. For the amount of time it takes to enquire, install and setup the software that will backup and recover your machines, there really is no excuse to plead ignorance whilst twiddling your thumbs waiting for the business to get up and running again.

Start 2014 off on the right foot by prioritising investing in BMR software. Not only will it give you confidence that your business servers are protected from any unpredictable IT, or even natural disaster, to occur, but it will also help you to easily achieve your recovery time objective(RTO).

For more information on achieving your new year’s resolution, please visit: www.cristie.com to find out more.