{"id":38057,"date":"2020-04-02T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2020\/04\/02\/goodbye-on-premises-infrastructure-hello-private-cloud-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:09:41","slug":"goodbye-on-premises-infrastructure-hello-private-cloud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2020\/04\/02\/goodbye-on-premises-infrastructure-hello-private-cloud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, on-premises infrastructure \u2013 hello, private cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cloud offers many benefits in an age where data dominates.<\/em> Jon Lucas, Co-Director at Hyve Managed Hosting<\/em>, investigates the underlying challenges for on-premises infrastructure users and how private cloud can bypass these by offering a superior solution. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are currently seeing a movement away from on-premises infrastructure, which has no doubt been propelled by the adoption of workloads in the cloud. Even so, there are many businesses that are not yet pursuing a cloud strategy and this is usually out of fear of a complicated and challenging adoption process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this is nothing more than scaremongering and it becomes irrelevant when it comes to paying closer attention to the evolving list of advantages to private cloud. So, what are the main underlying challenges for on-premises infrastructure users and how can private cloud bypass these by offering a superior solution? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time\nto leave the legacy in the past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many businesses still heavily rely on on-premises, legacy IT infrastructure \u2013 often for reasons out of their control. Some are restricted by budgets \u2013 a problem particularly evident across the public sector \u2013 while others use bespoke, mission-critical applications often seen as incompatible with the cloud. There are also many organisations that persist with old technologies because it hasn\u2019t broken \u2013 so why fix it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, there is a catch with using this approach to IT infrastructure \u2013 here is an example to prove it: January 14, 2020, marked the \u2018end of life\u2019 for Windows 7, a software which is still widely used across the public and private sector. This essentially means that Microsoft has stopped providing security updates and support for it, so users will either need to pay for extended support, upgrade to the current version of Windows, or keep using it regardless of the increased security risks it will present in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidently, this is not an effective, or secure long-term strategy. And counterpart to that one large example, there also exists many smaller yet similar issues in the industry that are no less important. For industries such as finance or government, moving to private cloud, where the solution is solely dedicated to the needs of an individual client or organisation, delivers the most up-to-date hardware, software and services, removing the legacy burden and allowing users to benefit from the latest product features and performance improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping\nphysically secure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even\nwithout the age of technology posing a risk, there are physical security\nhazards to consider when investing in on-premises infrastructure, as all\napplications and data are located on-site. The costs of managing on-premise\nphysical security to a high standard can create a significant financial burden.\nIn contrast, good private cloud providers will ensure all locations are Tier 3\nenhanced and ISO 27001:2013 certified. Their physical security measures, such\nas 24\/7 CCTV, biometric scanners, card readers and video monitors often exceed\nthose seen in on-premise facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore,\ndisastrous data loss is always a possibility when backups are only stored in\nthe same building as physical infrastructure; no one can plan for a natural\ndisaster, for example. Migrating to the cloud allows offsite backups to be sent\nto another data centre \u2013 reducing the possibility of serious downtime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greater\nreturn on investment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To build on-premises infrastructure requires a high initial investment, and the continual purchase and maintenance of software, hardware, servers and other IT equipment can be extremely costly. Along with the cost of equipment, on-premise hosting requires space, electricity, cooling, networking and physical security. In addition, there\u2019s also the cost of employing the skilled technicians needed to build and maintain on-premises infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many organisations who don\u2019t want the hefty financial burden, heading down the private cloud route is an appealing option. A managed private cloud solution can help to decrease that initial capital investment (Capex) and any ongoing operational expenses (Opex) by passing on the responsibility of maintaining infrastructure to the service provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Efficient\nand effective <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adopting\na private cloud strategy gives businesses the opportunity to reduce downtime,\nenhance application performance and scale computing resources. Organisations\nrunning their own hardware on-site run the repeated risk of buying equipment\nthat isn\u2019t right for their needs or doesn\u2019t work well with their applications.\nIn those circumstances, problems have to be diagnosed and rectified in-house,\nor at greater expense, with the help of outside expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe other hand, private cloud migration offers organisations the chance to\nbuild better architecture, streamline services and load-balance applications.\nNevertheless, organisations considering their options for private cloud should\nlook for a partner that can provide a dedicated team of experts, a bespoke\nmigrations plan made up of informed recommendations that will deliver the\noptimum performance for the entire organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nwaving goodbye to the challenges of on-premises infrastructure strategy and\nprecarious legacy hardware, organisations can welcome a private cloud solution\nthat still performs highly but that blends cost and security to meet their\nprecise needs. As a result, businesses will achieve a win-win formula\ncomprising of the trademark of on-premises dedicated resources \u2013 plus the\nperpetual flexibility and growing power of private cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cloud offers many benefits in an age where data dominates. Jon Lucas, Co-Director at Hyve Managed Hosting, investigates the underlying challenges for on-premises infrastructure users and how private cloud can bypass these by offering a superior solution. We are currently seeing a movement away from on-premises infrastructure, which has no doubt been propelled by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":38058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55,1489,27,93,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-data-centres","category-insights","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38190,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions\/38190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}