Blog HCaaS: A Consumption-Based Approach to Hybrid Cloud
By Kent Christensen / 7 Mar 2024 / Topics: Converged & hyperconverged Data center Modern infrastructure As a service
By Kent Christensen / 7 Mar 2024 / Topics: Converged & hyperconverged Data center Modern infrastructure As a service
A cloud-only approach doesn’t always make sense for every organization. Many leaders understand that keeping some workloads on-premises is essential to the success of their infrastructure and business model. Leaders can leverage on-premises solutions to mitigate costs, manage intellectual property, and ensure security and compliance across the environment.
Likewise, many also understand the benefits of keeping some workloads cloud-native: seamless scalability, low overhead cost and unparalleled flexibility. However, a successful infrastructure strategy addresses both business needs (agility and scalability) and the secure management of critical workloads in on-premises environments. For this reason, many organizations are choosing a hybrid cloud approach.
A hybrid cloud environment bridges the gap between on-premises and cloud environments, helping you keep some workloads on-premises while running part of your operations in the cloud. This approach integrates private and public clouds with data-stored environments, offering more flexibility, increased agility in storage and greater scalability of data.
This integration lets leaders get the best of both worlds: the scalability and convenience of cloud, while keeping the control and performance of on-premises — without inheriting the risks of either.
We know that cloud environments offer a modern platform with lower operational costs and agile benefits.
But many leaders are now asking: How can we bring these cloudlike benefits to the on-premises side of our hybrid cloud model?
Leaders may want cloudlike flexibility out of their on-premises workload environments for a few reasons:
Shifting the way your business consumes on-premises infrastructure can mean minimizing costs while maximizing performance.
Organizations need agility and scalability on all sides to remain competitive, not just in the cloud. Modernizing your on-premises consumption model means your on-premises workloads can actually work alongside cloud resources and benefit from all the advantages of cloud.
An as-a-service consumption model helps extend data centers into the cloud with more control and visibility.
HCaaS is a component of an overall cloud strategy where workloads can live in the right place at the right time. By complementing public cloud initiatives with a hosted/on-premises cloud option (when it makes sense), leaders can leverage the power of hybrid (and thus, have more choice). With HCaaS, leaders can use on-premises consumption with complete hybrid cloud solutions. HCaaS provides organizations with a seamless and integrated approach to managing on-premises infrastructure and cloud resources.
HCaaS empowers companies to modernize their on-premises infrastructure in a consumption-based model, replacing enormous, long-term capacity purchases with a predictable pay-as-you-go system that’s already being applied to existing workloads in the cloud.
HCaaS enables organizations to become more agile, scaling up and down as necessary and as business needs evolve. Plus, like other as-a-service models, HCaaS helps you gain access to information across your hybrid environment, on demand.
Hybrid cloud leverages the best of on-premises and cloud environments, and HCaaS integrates the benefits of both into a simple and practical consumption-based model.
Insight-delivered HCaaS offers a hands-off approach to hybrid cloud consumption. Our Insight team comes equipped with a deep understanding of business, technology and workloads — and the best ways your company can leverage HCaaS to exceed business outcomes.