The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation

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The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation
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The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation

• The Story of Hybrid Cloud
• Historically, enterprises have had the option to
  choose between a private and public cloud. While
  each offered substantial benefits, they fell
  short in some areas. This led to the development
  and evolution of the hybrid cloud model that
  capitalized on the benefits of both.
• While both private and public clouds had their
  own benefits and disadvantages, the hybrid cloud
  model delivered the best of both worlds. It
  offers numerous benefits, including
• Complete control over data and workloads
• Ease of scaling workloads to different cloud
  environment and instances
• Enhanced security
• Reduced costs
• However, along with all these benefits, it also
  brought some challenges such as initial
  deployment costs, network bottlenecks, lack of
  security visibility, and the daunting task of
  managing multiple cloud environments. While most
  hybrid-cloud limitations can be taken care of
  with appropriate decision making, such as picking
  the right vendor and combination of clouds, the
  major problem that cannot be easily handled is
  managing the workload, and thats where hybrid
  cloud automation scoops in.

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The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation
Factors to Consider While Automating Hybrid
Cloud Hybrid cloud automation clearly offers
numerous benefits to organizations. But that does
not mean merely jumping on the bandwagon.
Automating hybrid cloud must be a well-planned
and organized step. Consider the crucial factors
before beginning the automation to ensure its
success. Pick up the right tools Hybrid cloud
environments are highly complex. Hence, in most
cases, picking the right tool often paves the way
for the success of automation. Several tools are
available, but the primary and most popular ones
are Puppet Puppet provides a GUI-based
configuration to automate day-to-day operations,
making the IT teams life easier. The veteran
tool is most renowned for automating
Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Thus, you can use
it to automate the scaling of your hybrid cloud
infrastructure seamlessly. Ansible Developed by
Red Hat, Ansible is also a configuration tool
just like Puppet. Its enterprise version has
received a 4.4/5 rating from Gartner peer
insights TM review. With Ansible, you can
automate and orchestrate hybrid cloud processes
using GUI, Domain Specific Language (DSL), or
Rest API.
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The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation

• Kubernetes Kubernetes does not directly automate
  hybrid cloud, but it is adept at automating
  dockers that can be run on the cloud. It is used
  for deploying and managing resources, services,
  networking, and more.
• Managing internal and external clouds,
  distributed data from different operational lines
  and data security across various touch points
  become a significant issue. They also can't take
  full advantage of their IT and cloud
  infrastructure, which hampers business agility.
  Migrating and deploying a hybrid cloud,
  businesses get the best of both public and
  private cloud architecture worlds. Cloud
  automation helps enterprises leverage the
  benefits of hybrid cloud to the maximum extent.
• Abstract
• Hybrid cloud automation is not just a tactical
  solution, but rather a strategic way for
  businesses to quickly react to changing business
  requirements. To address customer expectations
  and overcome these challenges, IT leaders must
  implement hybrid cloud automation. Read this
  white paper as it chronicles the benefits, use
  cases, and the factors to be considered while
  automating the hybrid cloud.
• Download the white paper to know more
• https//www.cigniti.com/resource/white-papers/cios
  -guide-hybrid-cloud-automation