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John Hall , Managing Director – Colocation , Proximity Data Centres , discusses the practicalities , pros and cons of housing hybrid cloud environments in colocation data centres .
Engineering hybrid clouds to optimise Edge performance
By combining public and private clouds together , hybrid clouds can optimise available compute , connectivity , bandwidth and storage capabilities which enhances applications responsiveness , user experience and productivity . However , if the hybrid cloud architecture is overly reliant on data centres located hundreds of miles away , it can put applications and services at risk from poor response times due to latency issues while also racking up unnecessary data transit costs .
A more streamlined solution entails hosting private clouds in one or several regional Edge colocation facilities and connecting these to public cloud services hosted by service providers in centralised hyperscale data centres .
Mission critical applications are therefore securely contained within the private Edge cloud environment with only data that is non-time critical sent back to the public cloud – perhaps for further analysis or archiving . This effectively bridges the gap between users / devices in local offices or machines on factory floors , ensuring latency is greatly reduced . At the same time , data transit costs are reigned in with fewer high bandwidth circuits required for backhauling traffic to remote hyperscale data centres .
However , the success of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud implementations are highly dependent on the performance of the network between the various infrastructures . As well as the corporate www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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