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Elevate your cloud strategy

A solid cloud strategy can drive rapid innovation while enabling an organization to gain and maintain a competitive edge and deliver expected business outcomes. Having the right mix of people, process, and technology can help you make the right choices for your deployment. Our complimentary workshop features strategic due diligence and helps fill in knowledge gaps so you can plan and execute with confidence.

What do I need to know about building my own cloud? More than you might realize. There are a number of important questions to ask and decisions to make that will affect the success of your initiative. Read more...
Avoiding hidden gotchas in your hybrid cloud projects. A range of benefits can be offset quickly by unanticipated challenges. Read more...
The cloud skills gap is real—and painful. And, the ongoing burden of managing a cloud environment is not trivial. Read more...
Working with the right managed cloud provider is the easy button. A qualified MSP can accelerate the journey, and make sure things stay on track once you've arrived. Read more...
You don’t have to go it alone. Rapidly deploy and flexibly scale applications with a managed cloud, allowing your team to focus on other important initiatives and deliver strategic IT outcomes to the business. Read more...

What do I need to know about building my own cloud?

Organizations continue to adopt cloud computing at a steady rate, with most leveraging more than one cloud platform, spanning public and private clouds with multicloud and hybrid configurations. With so many options and combinations of technologies available, and differing requirements for each workload, it’s not surprising that IT teams sometimes struggle to determine where to place workloads.

Some common questions and challenges organizations encounter as they develop their cloud strategy and choose their cloud platform(s):

How do I know which workloads are a good fit for the cloud? And which cloud should I choose for each workload?
Is moving to the cloud an all-or-nothing proposition, or can I selectively place workloads on different platforms? If so, how can I manage them all?
How can I minimize complexity in my cloud model?
Which new or evolving technologies should I consider?
Do we have the right skill sets in-house to manage workloads in the cloud?
What interoperability issues should we consider? Orchestration? Connectivity?
Should I host a cloud in my own data center or off-premises?
Is the cloud platform secure? What security considerations should guide my decision?

Avoiding hidden gotchas in your hybrid cloud projects

Many organizations select a private cloud as part of their hybrid mix. A hybrid cloud strategy offers a range of appealing benefits:

The ability to place workloads in the best environment for their unique needs, a.k.a., the best execution venue.
Hybrid clouds are ideal for workloads that would be limited by a single cloud.
They also help bridge the gap when dealing with a combination of legacy systems-of-record and new cloud applications.
The hybrid approach also provides access to new and innovative technologies, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).

However, there are also challenges associated with implementing this type of model, (or any cloud) including:

finding the right skill sets to manage the cloud, including data integration, network connectivity, and unified management.
interoperability,
the potential need for power, cooling, or connectivity upgrades that will add cost and time to the deployment plan.
an expanded attack surface, and
competing priorities that can block the path to success.

While many IT professionals are wired for learning new skills, building your own cloud is not a task that should be undertaken lightly. In addition to the potential shortage or even absence of cloud skill sets on your internal team, re-tasking a team to build a cloud can also disrupt the balance of keeping on the proverbial IT lights and meeting the strategic needs of the business.

The cloud skills gap is real—and painful. And, the ongoing burden of managing a cloud environment is not trivial

The human element can be the hardest obstacle to overcome. In many IT disciplines, finding and retaining employees with the requisite skill sets is a real and ongoing challenge.

The proliferation of digital transformation projects (more than two-thirds of companies are in some phase of a project, and nearly half have a project underway), has put a premium on the highly technical skills required to operate in the cloud. A recent Gartner survey showed that as many as 63% of senior executives say a talent shortage is one of their organization’s major concerns. The skills in high demand include migration, virtualization, architecture, and security.

Not only does the move to the cloud require rapid deployment of new skill sets, the challenge is compounded by the fact that many IT organizations are already stretched trying to manage change and multiple types of technologies. Mundane but critical tasks like patching are time consuming and draw resources away from strategic IT initiatives.

Working with the right managed cloud provider is the easy button

A private cloud can be on-premises or hosted in a provider’s facility. Many organizations choose to leverage a hosted or managed private cloud to accelerate their journey to the cloud using the expertise and management of a service provider.

A cloud provider not only will help organizations that are struggling to design and migrate to the cloud, they may also handle cloud maintenance, software updates, security, support, monitoring, and facility management, significantly reducing the burden on staff.

You don’t have to go it alone. A managed cloud can be the best of both worlds.

For many organizations, a private cloud is an integral part of their hybrid environment, allowing you to build, deploy, and manage applications with dedicated compute, network, and storage resources.

TierPoint’s Hosted Private Cloud powered by Nutanix combines a best-in-class, high-availability cloud platform so you can rapidly deploy and flexibly scale applications.

Our team of Nutanix-certified experts will help manage your cloud including patching, updates, maintenance, and monitoring – and a private cloud based on Nutanix keeps your cloud in a controllable and highly resilient environment while allowing your team to focus on other important initiatives and deliver strategic IT outcomes.

Let our experts manage your cloud.

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Avoiding hidden gotchas in your hybrid cloud projects

The cloud skills gap is real—and painful. And, the ongoing burden of managing a cloud environment is not trivial

Working with the right managed cloud provider is the easy button

You don’t have to go it alone. A managed cloud can be the best of both worlds.

Enhance your cloud strategy with our complimentary workshop.

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