Private Cloud

The private cloud is defined as computing services offered either over the Internet or a private internal network and only to select users instead of the general public. Also called an internal or corporate cloud, private cloud computing gives businesses many of the benefits of a public cloud – including self-service, scalability, and elasticity – with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources over a computing infrastructure hosted on-premises.

Private clouds deliver a higher level of security and privacy through both company firewalls and internal hosting to ensure operations and sensitive data are not accessible to third-party providers.
Private clouds are the ideal solution for IT leaders who want to make enterprise resources available on-demand, but can’t (or don’t want to) move to the public cloud. This can be due to security policies, budgets, compliance requirements, or regulations, like those that define the healthcare and financial service industries.

Setting up a private cloud includes the following technologies:

Virtualization, which enables IT resources to be abstracted from their underlying physical hardware and pooled into unbounded resource pools of computing, storage, memory, and networking capacity that can then portioned among multiple virtual machines (VMs), containers, or other virtualized IT infrastructure elements.

Management software gives administrators centralized control over the infrastructure and applications running on it.

Automation speeds tasks—such as server provisioning and integrations—that would otherwise need to be performed manually and repeatedly.

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Data Availability & Backup

Cloud Backup is a terminology used to describe a backup solution in which the data and the applications running are backed up on the remote servers or offsite servers. The remote servers are generally hosted by third-party service providers. Cloud backup solutions, enable companies to store their data and files on the internet instead of backing them up locally on the physical disk like hard drives.

In today’s world cloud backup becomes a necessity since most organizations deal with critical data that they not want to lose. Cloud backup typically collects, compresses, encrypts, and transfers the data on the remotely located servers.

Advantages of Backing Up Data to the Cloud

Flexible Storage: In comparison to traditional and local backup where data is stored on the physical hard drives which have limited capacity like storage, cloud backups are flexible in nature and are easily scale up and down according to with the requirement.

Rapid Data Recovery: It is very easy to recover the data from cloud-based backups since data can be accessible all over the internet at any time.

Reliable Disaster Recovery: With the help of cloud backup services, users have instant access to their data in case of disaster whether it is manmade and natural.

Safeguarding apps and data: Cloud backup solutions provide safety from local weather disturbances and outages of the critical data for the applications.

Lower Cost of Ownership: In Cloud backup, you can take advantage of existing infrastructure and you don’t need to install any expensive software and buy any hardware equipment.

Smarter Use of resources: Cloud backup solutions allow your business to redirect IT resources to more pressing challenges. The scalable feature of the cloud allows using of resources when required.

Cloud backups provide an easy and low-cost method to back up critical data. As the amount of critical data grows in various sectors like health, finance, and so on, there is a need to securely store this data so it is helpful for future data analysis. In this article, we learned about cloud backups, which solutions are available in the market, what are the security issues, and how to deal with them.Cloud Backup is a terminology used to describe a backup solution in which the data and the applications running are backed up on the remote servers or offsite servers. The remote servers are generally hosted by third-party service providers. Cloud backup solutions, enable companies to store their data and files on the internet instead of backing them up locally on the physical disk like hard drives.

In today’s world cloud backup becomes a necessity since most organizations deal with critical data that they not want to lose. Cloud backup typically collects, compresses, encrypts, and transfers the data on the remotely located servers.

Advantages of Backing Up Data to the Cloud

Flexible Storage: In comparison to traditional and local backup where data is stored on the physical hard drives which have limited capacity like storage, cloud backups are flexible in nature and are easily scale up and down according to with the requirement.

Rapid Data Recovery: It is very easy to recover the data from cloud-based backups since data can be accessible all over the internet at any time.

Reliable Disaster Recovery: With the help of cloud backup services, users have instant access to their data in case of disaster whether it is manmade and natural.

Safeguarding apps and data: Cloud backup solutions provide safety from local weather disturbances and outages of the critical data for the applications.

Lower Cost of Ownership: In Cloud backup, you can take advantage of existing infrastructure and you don’t need to install any expensive software and buy any hardware equipment.

Smarter Use of resources: Cloud backup solutions allow your business to redirect IT resources to more pressing challenges. The scalable feature of the cloud allows using of resources when required.

Cloud backups provide an easy and low-cost method to back up critical data. As the amount of critical data grows in various sectors like health, finance, and so on, there is a need to securely store this data so it is helpful for future data analysis. In this article, we learned about cloud backups, which solutions are available in the market, what are the security issues, and how to deal with them.

Hybrid Cloud

By building private cloud architecture according to cloud-native principles, an organization gives itself the flexibility to easily move workloads to the public cloud or run them within a hybrid cloud (mixed public and private cloud) environment whenever they’re ready.

A hybrid cloud integrates public and private cloud infrastructures. In this model, the two types of cloud are joined together into a single, flexible infrastructure, and the enterprise can choose the optimal cloud environment for each individual application or workload.

To make the best use of this type of cloud computing, an enterprise must rely on technologies and orchestration tools that allow it to move workloads seamlessly across the two environments in order to meet performance, cost, compliance, and security requirements.

A hybrid cloud can enable an ideal division of labor—an enterprise can keep sensitive data and applications that can’t easily be migrated to the cloud in its on-premises data center, while using the public cloud for access to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and any additional platform, storage, or compute capacity it might need.

To truly optimize your IT infrastructure, it’s key to have a comprehensive and resilient approach to hybrid multi-cloud. One that lowers costs without cloud lock-in, integrates and plays well with your existing solutions — all while simplifying containerization, management, software-defined storage, and modern data protection.

Optimistic Technology Solutions (OTSPL) works with leading ISP’s to give you the right-sized Multi-Cloud / Hybrid Cloud solution.

DR

Cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR) is a combination of strategies and services intended to back up data, applications, and other resources to the public cloud or dedicated service providers. When a disaster occurs, the affected data, applications, and other resources can be restored to the local data center — or a cloud provider — and resume normal operation for the enterprise.
The goal of cloud DR is virtually identical to traditional DR: to protect valuable business resources and ensure that protected resources can be accessed and recovered to continue normal business operations. DR is a central element of any business continuity (BC) strategy. Before the advent of cloud connectivity and self-service technologies, traditional DR options were limited to local DR and second-site implementations. Local DR didn’t always protect against disasters such as fires, floods, and earthquakes. A second site — off-site DR — provided far better protection against physical disasters but imposed significant business costs for implementing and maintaining a second data center.
With the emergence of cloud technologies, public cloud and managed service providers could create a dedicated facility to offer a wide range of effective backup and DR services and capabilities. Businesses receive continuous access to highly automated, highly scalable, self-driven off-site DR services without the expense of a second data center and without the need to select, install and maintain DR tools.

NAS Consolidation

Cloud-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) helps you address storage needs in the cloud using the same constructs as an on-premises NAS system. This technology gives organizations storage that’s as performant as their on-prem NAS with the added ability to scale in the cloud—and all without having to make major changes to their existing application interfaces and processes. This is a great way to begin cloud file sharing.

The familiar approach of accessing and using NAS storage will work, without the overhead costs of procuring, configuring, and managing an actual NAS storage box. With exponential data growth being a common concern, cloud-based NAS is often one of the preferred solutions for enterprise customers.

Cloud NAS is the equivalent of your NAS device, but hosted in the cloud. Unlike traditional NAS devices on-premises which come pre-packaged with compute and storage capacity in a box, Cloud NAS solutions use the compute, storage, and network capabilities offered by a cloud service provider to offer the NAS service.

While many cloud platforms offer NAS or NAS-like capabilities, few enterprise solutions also allow the native storage benefits with additional features such as deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning storage efficiencies, incremental snapshots, advanced cloning capabilities, multiprotocol access, and much more.