How Hybrid Clouds Can Improve Security & Reliability

Growing organizations may benefit from offloading maintenance and update chores to a provider with lots of in-house expertise.
Hybrid cloud solutions promise to deliver better reliability and security, and for many small businesses, they might prove quite an efficient solution.
Hybrid cloud solutions combine the advantages of public and on-premises computing. They are more cost-effective and can free up time for more important and mission-critical tasks.
Hybrid cloud offers a combination of Opex and Capex models, which in the end can help businesses optimize expenditure. While it’s always attractive to reduce capital expenses, cutting operating expenses is especially appealing for companies that have limited funds. Hybrid cloud can allow doing both.
Improving Reliability
Hybrid cloud is a good fit for small businesses that require reliable, high-availability, and instant data recovery. Uptime reliability is typically spelled out in any SLA agreement with a cloud vendor.
The uptime percentage is given as a percentage that’s close to zero downtime, or at least 99.9% availability. It’s often referred to as ‘three nines’ and means a range of downtime that’s acceptable annually.
Data recovery is another critical component of a hybrid cloud. It can help minimize the loss of data in the event of a disaster or catastrophic event. By backing up to the cloud as frequently as every 15 minutes, it can safeguard critical information in the event of a major loss.
Hybrid cloud backup and storage provide a more robust and secure alternative to traditional on-site backup. This method of backup and storage is ideal for small businesses that don’t have large budgets or require frequent backups.
Boosting Security
Hybrid cloud security involves more than just keeping the infrastructure secure. It also secures the applications and data that comprise a business’ operating environment.
Encryption, automation, access control, and endpoint protection are typical components of a hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud allows businesses to protect sensitive information in a private cloud environment, while still using public cloud resources at a lower cost to store data that doesn’t present the same kinds of risks.
Hybrid cloud may not be the best choice for the smallest businesses, but if your environment is robust enough to support on-premises backup and security, then it may make sense to explore how it can improve your security posture.