Hybrid cloud management helps enterprises control technology costs while increasing access to modern, more scalable IT resources that are flexible and easy to deploy.
IT leaders recognize the critical need for a comprehensive hybrid cloud management platform that has access to a range of available private and public cloud resources that can be provisioned at the right time for the right users while balancing flexibility and cost control.The following essential tips provide IT leaders with the rationale for deploying hybrid cloud strategies with confidence.
Hybrid Cloud Management Lowers Costs
Effective hybrid cloud management strategies can lower the overall cost for some digital business initiatives. The goal is to optimize resources to right-fit the appropriate infrastructure resources to meet the needs of the digital business initiatives. A hybrid cloud management platform gives IT admins the ability to make deployment decisions based on the cost to run the infrastructure as well as on the role of the resources. For example, if the amount of compute resources for a set of database servers does not fluctuate that much, then having dedicated on-premises resources for them might be ideal and can be more cost effective. On the other hand, some resources might fluctuate dramatically with demand. For example, registration time for students selecting classes for a semester at a university. In this case, access to elastic cloud resources can be quickly spun up for this demand and run for a set time frame. The cost would be relatively higher for these resources being used on demand but in the end would be justified because the need to provision resources that might remain idle for the rest of the semester could cost even more.
Hybrid Cloud Management Adds Efficiency to Operations
Another popular reason for hybrid cloud management is to centrally manage an organization’s expanding private and public cloud IT infrastructures alongside legacy infrastructure with the potential for operational efficiency. Hybrid cloud management empowers IT departments with provisioning capabilities across an entire spectrum of resources that can be specifically tailored for customers, clients, and employees and in many cases be exposed as self-service IT. The result is that both end users and IT staff spend less time on infrastructure management and have more time for solving organizational challenges or creating new business opportunities that will add to the organization’s bottom line.
Hybrid Cloud Management Improves Customer Loyalty
Hybrid cloud management can add agility to any infrastructure provisioning process, which can ultimately result in a faster time to value for goods and services that are more responsive to changing market conditions and customer needs. Leveraging a centralized hybrid cloud management solution within enterprises helps administrators manage multiple private and public cloud options that can ultimately help drive business value. For example, fast moving retail environments can leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud management with more agile business initiatives that provide custom marketing campaigns that increase product sales and customer satisfaction that ultimately strengthens the relationship between the customer and the company.
Hybrid Cloud Management Enables Self-Service IT
Hybrid cloud management empowers both developers and cloud architects, by providing developers with self-service IT, enabling them to access the servers and services they need with just a few clicks, when and how they need them. Hybrid cloud management also eliminates the complexity that the hybrid cloud can bring by leaving the nitty gritty configuration details to IT administrators who can abstract the most complex environments to end users.
Hybrid cloud management consolidates both internal and external clouds into a single user-facing application that allows users to easily manage and provision resources on demand. Once installed, it gives administrators the power to set provisioning conditions and empowers end users to access the environments needed to do their jobs.
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