Multi-cloud: Best of two worlds
Over the past two years, there has been a movement away from public cloud back to private Cloud. The coined term is “cloud data repatriation”. The curtain is lifting exposing the fallacy of public cloud. The belief that public cloud saves money because a company only pays for what it consumes was a major selling point that never translated into cost savings over time with greater performance. Realistically, companies have demonstrated that they purchase capacity and not actual time consumed. In reality, companies are in the same economics of a private cloud or on-premises cloud solution.
What’s driving the move back to Private Cloud?
The cost of public cloud platforms has leveled out and beginning to increase. The days of low-cost performance are over. At some point, public companies (Microsoft/Amazon) needed to start generating greater profits on their Public Cloud platforms investment.
Corporations are realizing that public cloud doesn’t offer the type of consistency and security/compliance features that a private cloud infrastructure can provide. In the past year, there have been major service interruptions with the AWS platform and Azure had two major outages
Reserved instances of public cloud resources can be expensive for larger-scale enterprise environments such as lift and shift migrations of legacy code applications.
So what’s the solution? “Multicloud”.
Wayfinder IT Solutions was a pioneer in virtualization in 2003 and again in 2008 when Microsoft’s Hyper V was introduced. We have continued to enhance the security and performance of our private cloud environments. Allianz trusted Wayfinder IT Solutions with hosting an acquired corporation’s environment during years of transition. While we do utilize VM Ware virtual environments, we found the best price-performance with Hyper V. Our Fortune 500 clients’ production workloads are in our leading-edge private cloud and we also deploy a number of strategies in public cloud platforms that tie into our private cloud environments with great success.
