5 Challenges Your Company Faces Adopting Hybrid Cloud

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It’s becoming apparent that instituting a hybrid cloud approach is the path forward because of the benefits of private and public clouds. Hybrid cloud computing helps in a management’s decision-making process about how to effectively manage application workloads that may require different platforms. To be clear, challenges such as security issues, management issues, complex migration processes, partitioning, overall trust issues, scheduling, execution issues, etc. are evident when leveraging a hybrid cloud. However, these issues can be overcome, but they will take a concentrated team effort to tackle efficiently. If you’re considering cloud migration companies, DataStrike is your solution. Check out our blog where we show you the five challenges of adopting the hybrid cloud approach. 

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Security Risks 

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The biggest challenge in adopting a hybrid cloud approach is safeguarding data. When it comes to the hybrid cloud model, businesses have to juggle a variety of security platforms. The secure transfer of data between your private and public clouds is essential. When your data becomes externalized, this can lead to potential issues regarding identity management and data protection. Your business must know who has access to what data to ensure private and valuable data won’t end up on the public cloud. This problem can become significantly more damaging if you have different providers like Microsoft and Amazon. Businesses must carefully monitor the transfer of data between private and public clouds. 

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Complex Integration

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Integrating private and public clouds is a massive challenge when navigating the hybrid cloud infrastructure. The technical skills to assist this infrastructure are difficult to find and obtain. Regular applications and their transfer between numerous clouds aren’t difficult, but moving configurations and Meta data across these environments is much more difficult. Comparability further complicates the integration process. The type of workload will, in large part, determine the host you choose to utilize and if a hybrid cloud model is what best suits your company. Identifying the tools and patterns that will allow you to move processes could be difficult for even the most expert of technicians. Additionally, integrating legacy systems with cloud computing can be difficult, and creating an infrastructure to manage hundreds of applications can make things even more complex. 

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Cloud Management 

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There is no standard for the management and configurations of cloud services spanning a variety of cloud providers and companies are left to design and implement strategies on their own. It can be challenging to allocate resources as infrastructure will differ across disparate providers. When dealing with servers across these environments, an organization needs to understand applications and environments that are either over or under-provisioned. Additionally, accounting for changing behavioral patterns of resources, end-users, and networks is pivotal. For cloud computing, it’s important to note that scaling levels and demand can reach maximum levels. However, knowing the constraints for each environment will mitigate over, or under-utilization.  

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Scale Complications 

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Despite the size of a given business, there will be a set limit on scalability that may fluctuate from time to time. Volumes will grow larger over time, so knowing your environment’s limitations will allow for realistic goal setting. It’s also important to know the limitations of more dynamic cloud systems. As your applications become intertwined, issues may occur with one application that may cause another to malfunction. It is important to manage application load supporting needs to understand the capacity of your data in specific environments. Setting up a solid infrastructure can be time-consuming and complicated.  However, doing so will help solve these problems and is crucial to the success of any long-term hybrid cloud computing approach. 

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Network Design 

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Hybrid cloud computing models that are seeking to have long-term success must have an

Innovative and robust network design. Your network must prepare for various factors that could arise such as network bandwidth, private and public cloud management, location impact on your network, applicational network requirements, required security measures, and other factors. Different application sets must operate in different areas of your cloud environment. Your business must understand the prerequisites of scaling each application to create an infrastructure and network design. Cloud managers must also consider the limitations of public clouds when it comes to networking and develop appropriate strategies to circumvent this. Services such as Microsoft Azure and Cloud Hybrid Service are now offering new solutions that allow customers to safely expand their existing data centers without running an increased risk on security and response levels. 

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Conclusion

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There are many complexities to navigate when considering a hybrid cloud environment.  DataStrike will help to solve the challenges you face during cloud migration. Whether you deal with security risks, integration difficulties, cloud management, scaling complications, or network design issues, you’ll be able to tackle these challenges head-on with DataStrike.

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About DataStrike

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