Data centre and private cloud
Modernise your private cloud infrastructure to mitigate risk and deliver optimal availability, security, and reliability.
A private cloud is a type of on-premises data centre that hosts various IT services for an organisation. It can range from a single server room to a full tier four site. In recent years, many organisations have modernised their private cloud infrastructure by adopting software defined data centre (SDDC) and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. These solutions use virtualisation and unified management to provide more flexibility, scalability, automation, and efficiency than traditional three-tier architectures.
SDDC and HCI are modern private cloud technologies that use virtualisation and unified management to pool and provision compute, storage, and networking resources. They offer more flexibility, scalability, automation, and efficiency than traditional data centre architectures. Phoenix can help you choose the right solution from leading vendors such as Microsoft, Dell Technologies, and VMware.
What are the benefits of private cloud?
For some organisations, private cloud is still the best option for them to run at their optimal capacity. Some of the benefits of using a private cloud solution are:
Consistent resource demands:
organisations that will experience steady and foreseeable resource needs have a higher probability of optimising resource utilisation
Better utilisation of resources:
as many servers operate below their full capacity, virtualisation enhances resource utilisation for private cloud users. This allows for the flexible deployment of workloads to alternative physical servers based on user demands
Reduced costs:
better utilisation of resources will assist organisations in optimising application performance and cutting costs by maximising server efficiency. For certain organisations, this will prove more economical than a public cloud environment
Regulatory compliance:
the security and control advantages private cloud environments offer help with addressing key compliance aspects, including HIPAA Compliant Hosting and PCI Compliant Hosting
Compatibility with legacy applications:
some of your organisations legacy applications may be better suited to operating within a private cloud and similarly, some vendors don’t support legacy applications within the cloud
What private cloud solution is for you?
It’s important to remember that with all modern data centre deployments, including hybrid cloud, there’s no one size fits all approach. Organisations have different requirements when it comes to developing and maintaining its IT services, security and regulatory obligations, and how they operate their IT budgets.
With our consultative approach, we’re skilled and experienced in helping our customers achieve the right solution for them, taking advantage of cloud services where it makes sense to do so, and supporting you on your data centre transformation journey.
Turn your private cloud solution into hybrid cloud
Taking advantage of the hybrid cloud model enables you to host applications, data, and services on a public cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
Organisations are choosing the hybrid cloud model to drive more value from their existing infrastructure, using technologies such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Azure VMware Solution (AVS) to extend their data centre and take advantage of the flexibility offered by more deployment options and advanced features around security and compliance.
Adopting a hybrid cloud approach enables your organisation to seamlessly scale up to meet short term peaks in demand without additional capital expenditure, by only paying for what you use.
Hybrid cloud provides the flexibility to run some workloads in the public cloud, while utilising your on-premises technology investment and providing simplified management across your entire hybrid estate.
Supporting you with your hybrid and public cloud migration
Surveyor Migrate is a service for organisations that want to quickly adopt/ migrate their workloads and need a fast and simple way of transferring their virtual machines (VMs) and applications.
The fast and simple way of Azure migration allows organisations to access the benefits of the cloud faster, without having to change or redesign their existing applications and workloads in complex ways. This method involves moving their current on-premises applications and workloads to Azure in a short time, reducing disruptions and speeding up value creation.
Surveyor Migrate not only simplifies the migration process but also ensures operational continuity, enabling you to leverage the scalability, security, and innovation of Azure.
Discover Surveyor Migrate nowSurveyor Modernise evaluates your current application portfolio. It gives organisations a strategic multi-stage plan for the modernisation of their portfolio over multiple years.
This plan uses Azure native services and matches each stage with your business goals, as well as estimating a total cost of ownership. This method ensures a customised transformation that optimises efficiency and innovation.
The outcome is not just a migration, but a comprehensive application modernisation that leverages the full power of Azure’s native services.
Discover Surveyor Modernise nowData centre and private cloud FAQs
Public cloud offers cloud computing services to multiple users over the internet, managed by third-party providers, while private cloud is dedicated solely to one organisation, either managed internally or by a third-party.
Public cloud resources are also shared among users, providing cost-effectiveness and scalability, whereas private cloud offers greater control, security, and customisation options.
Talk to our Infrastructure Specialists today
Arrange a free chat with one of our specialists today to discuss the current state of your data centre, where you feel you need to improve, and how we’re able to help you modernise for the future.
You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.