The iland Hybrid Cloud combines the benefits of cloud architecture with the need to support traditional environments including in-house datacenters, colocation, and managed hosting.
So, what is a hybrid cloud? The term describes configurations that combine virtual and physical, colocated assets—for example, a mostly virtualized environment that requires physical servers, routers, or other hardware such as a network appliance acting as a firewall or spam filter.
• Legacy software
• DR environments requiring hardware
• Colocated customer/vender needs
• Enterprise data warehouse
• Corporate ERP systems
• Credit card processing system
• Certain VoIP applications
• R&D or other highly confidential data
• Operating systems not available in the cloud
There’s two sides to every cloud
The benefits of virtualization in a scalable, flexible cloud infrastructure are undeniable. But for many reasons not everything can or will be virtualized. This leaves IT organizations with the need to not just support physical servers and a virtual infrastructure, but ensure the integration of the two.
How it works
iland supports hybrid virtual and physical solutions with colocation, connectivity, and managed services at all iland Cloud Infrastructure Datacenters. Whether customers require physical servers, routers, load balancers, or other hardware, iland provides solutions to integrate these physical devices into the overall architecture.