Technology Magazine April 2024 | Page 128

Delivering High Performance and Security with a Cost-Effective Hybrid Cloud

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“ A large majority of customers that I talk to are using this kind of hybrid cloud model , using at least one of AWS , Azure , or Google , as well as their own on premise private cloud . The main benefit of this is the flexibility to prioritise the requirements for each specific project , whether it ’ s agility , cost , security or access to services that are available in the public cloud .”
As Umashankar Lakshmipathy , EVP and Co-Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Services ( CIS ) at Infosys , describes , a hybrid cloud approach leverages the strengths of both private and public models , while mitigating their respective limitations .
“ In this model , workloads – typically called systems of records , i . e ., applications that do not undergo rapid change and / or have a predictable growth or capacity requirement or are custom-developed – remain on-premise on a private cloud .”
“ Almost all organisations – with the exception of companies born in the cloud – follow a hybrid approach with a varying percentage of their environment split between public and private clouds ,” adds Lakshmipathy .
“ Leveraging this workload-centric approach where each workload is analysed to identify whether it is best suited for a private or public cloud ,
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