What Type of Clouds are Those?
Lonnie Elwood - Client Success Manager
Like an inquisitive youngster looking up into the sky on a summer day and wonder what type of clouds are up there, enterprises can ask the same thing about Cloud Computing. The world of Cloud computing is ever changing, and that’s a good thing, as the options to improve your business continue to expand.
All these changes, however, can make it difficult to keep up. Even the core terminology about Cloud infrastructure options can be difficult for those new to Cloud to understand. This month, we are going to take it back up a level to revisit a topic and describe the main Cloud types that our clients take advantage of today and where your workload will be running.
1. Private Cloud – With a Private Cloud, you are not responsible for maintaining the facility, cooling, power, network, storage, or virtualization layers. Managed hosting partners provide support and services for traditional IT infrastructure, so you don’t need to staff and support the environment with your own employees. Hosted cloud providers can also support the operating system and application layers if need be. You also have the choice of using dedicated hardware or shared hardware depending on your business requirements and budget.
2. Public Cloud – A Public Cloud leverages hyper-scale data centers with modern API’s that allow greater flexibility and speed for deploying and decommissioning your resources. With public cloud, you are using shared resources from large cloud service providers (CSP’s). Public cloud allows you to provision whatever resources you need so your organization can focus on building and managing servers and applications instead of the underlying infrastructure.
3. Multi Cloud – The Multi Cloud option is the most exciting development we see in the industry today. In this scenario, you take advantage of multiple Cloud platforms and divide your workload across them. There can be a separation of development and production environments, as well as production and disaster recovery equipment. One Cloud platform may have software licensing benefits over the other. Using load and regression testing software such as GSI’s GENISYS tool, you can evaluate which of the platform runs your workload better. And in the event one of the Cloud platforms has a wide spread outage, you can configure mission critical workloads to fail over to another platform.
Businesses are getting increasing value out of the Cloud computing options available for hosting their enterrprise applications (i.e. JD Edwards Cloud, Peoplesoft, EBS, etc.). We at GSI would like to help you do the same. If you need assistance designing and operating your Cloud strategy, we have dedicated Cloud and solution architect teams that are well versed in these technologies. At GSI we take pride in the fact that our teammates and consultants have extensive technical and business experience that can help your organization. Email us at cloudexperts@getgsi.com to start the conversation.
To learn more GSI’s Cloud services and solutions, visit Cloud Services or email us at cloudexperts@getgsi.com.
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Lonnie Elwood
