The Hybrid Cloud became a critical element among top IT resilience options for the vast majority of modern organizations. Let’s see what advanced companies take into account before incorporating a relative set up in a hybrid form.

Asses the business needs carefully

The first and most important step for every organization is to asses its business needs and objectives carefully before exploring the hybrid cloud spectrum. For instance, Managers need to define parameters such as:

- Is it better to build an inhouse private cloud or to lease space and resources in an advanced data center service provider? Obviously, the second choice is way more efficient due to the opportunity the business gets to leverage economies of scale.

- Does the company have in house cloud consultants or will it need to work with external service providers? Working with external consultants is probably the best choice.

Of course, one of the most important considerations is the cost of running such an infrastructure. Cost estimations should also include projections for maintenance and further growth.

Making security a priority

Getting a Hybrid Cloud strategy in place does increase efficiency. However, a single mistake can compromise sensitive data. To that, it is highly recommended that at the beginning of managing such an infrastructure, organizations do not keep sensitive information on the cloud.

Also, another aspect for every organization to consider is the amount of data to be kept there. Again, for security reasons, it is recommended that smaller amounts of data are kept for some time until operations and security processes are fine-tuned.

Segmenting applications and data

With resilience being the main objective, access to data, apps, and relative material has to be done quickly and effectively. Grouping data and categorizing things enables companies to have better control of things.

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