The Charge Toward

HYBRID

The cloud has evolved from a technical innovation to something that is an enabling force for most organizations. It’s incredible to think that in 2012, only 34 percent of executives had a solid plan for adopting cloud computing1. Compare that to today where 78 percent of organizations1 describe their cloud initiatives as coordinated or fully integrated, and it’s easy to see how much has changed.

Even with the rising use of cloud resources, organizations still choose to keep many of their applications and workloads on-premises – one of the main reasons that many organizations are shifting toward hybrid cloud as an approach to IT.

With a hybrid cloud, you can be more selective about when and how to use cloud resources and traditional on-premises infrastructure. You can choose what functions should stay on-premises and which ones can be delivered through private and public clouds. Highly dynamic applications and workloads can even live in both, resulting in better functionality along with improved �exibility, scalability, and security.

Hybrid cloud adoption has grown 13 percent2 over the past year, and according to IBM1 many of the organizations who have recently implemented a hybrid cloud solution are seeing immediate bene�ts:

80%say their hybrid cloud is accelerating digital transformation

9 out of 10say their hybrid cloud is crucial to business strategy and success

66%say their hybrid cloud is enabling competitive advantages

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ON-PREMISES

Why Hybrid is

BETTER

It’s important to remember that a hybrid cloud is not in itself a technology, but more of a usage philosophy. The way you use, manage, and orchestrate on-premises, private, and public cloud resources is what de�nes a hybrid cloud.

By employing public cloud services for non-sensitive operations and private cloud services for storing protected or privileged data, a hybrid cloud can provide greater �exibility and more deployment options for your applications and other workloads. Hybrid clouds are helping organizations achieve greater control of their data and improve application performance, with additional bene�ts like:

1. On-premises and cloud choice: With a hybrid cloud, organizations can leverage the best of what on-premises and cloud can o�er. This creates a more �exible IT environment, rather than being con�ned by a prepackaged solution or model.

2. Enhanced agility: A hybrid cloud enables the ability to seamlessly move workloads between on-premises infrastructure and cloud resources. This creates a cost-e�ective, non-disruptive way to deliver IT services or handle rapid growth compared to traditional hardware-bound models.

3. Overall cost savings: Rather than a rip-and-replace of legacy technology, a hybrid cloud allows organizations to bridge the gap between old and new systems bringing signi�cant CAPEX and OPEX savings to the business.

4. Consistent security and compliance: The public cloud element of a hybrid cloud provides economies of scale, allowing organizations to bene�t from cost reductions. The private cloud element o�ers security for sensitive information while still satisfying regulatory requirements for data transmission and storage.

5. Freed resources: By relying on public cloud services for non-essential activities, you can free up more internal resources (people and infrastructure) to focus on core business activities.

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Starting Your Journey to a Hybrid Cloud with

KEYINFO

Analysts and experts agree that hybrid cloud is the future of IT infrastructure and we are �nding that many of our most compelling client conversations revolve around hybrid cloud. As a company, we are uniquely positioned to guide them in creating a hybrid cloud strategy for their organizations.

Over the past �fteen years, we have transformed ourselves from a value-added reseller of on-premises technology to a cloud provider with a full suite of data center capabilities, including private and hybrid cloud o�erings, connectivity services, co-location facilities, and managed services. This enables us to have strategic conversations with our clients about their overall objectives – not just technology – to deliver hybrid cloud solutions that help them better manage systems and data across locations in a secure, repeatable way.

When developing and recommending solutions, we always verify that what we do as a service provider tightly aligns with what our clients are doing on-premises. To us, hybrid cloud solutions are about building the future with our clients, and ensuring their workloads and applications run e�ciently across all environments, both on and o�-premises.

Through KeyCloud™ we provide enterprise-grade cloud hosting in production-ready as-a-Service solutions on Windows, Linux, IBM i, AIX and AS/400 as part of a customized hybrid cloud solution built to �t your unique business needs. We’ll discuss them further over the next few pages.

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KeyCloud o�ers highly secure virtual and dedicated machines in an environment that enables you to run your apps on our carrier grade data center for 99.999 percent uptime. Engineered on a pool of highly redundant servers and storage, KeyCloud is available in custom con�gurations to rapidly respond to your IT needs.

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service: Hybrid Cloud with IBM Power

SYSTEMS

Along with o�ering standard Windows and Linux builds on Intel, we also o�er the IBM Power Systems architecture as a hosted option. Power Systems enables massive scale up and supports signi�cant density at extremely high performance, in a stable physical platform with reliable management tools.

It’s a great option for an organization that wants to create a hybrid cloud with more sophisticated requirements that cannot be met with commodity virtual machines in the cloud. Additionally, it o�ers a seamless transition for organizations with legacy IBM i applications on-premises to get rid of their hardware and securely place their workloads in the cloud.

With IBM Power Systems architecture, you can provision virtual environments just like with Intel architecture, and you can have a hybrid mix of on-premises and o�-premises resources. Features like the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) represent a competitive di�erentiator for KeyInfo as a cloud provider, because they enable us to deliver extreme performance in a high density environment— meaning we provide you higher performance for lower cost.

“O�ering IBM Power Systems makes a lot of sense because the bulk of cloud providers only have skills in the x86 space—but most enterprises have more sophisticated requirements that cannot be met with commodity virtual machines in the cloud.”

-Lief Morin, CEO KeyInfo

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Thanks to IBM Power Systems, you can have con�dence running your mission-critical workloads in a hybrid cloud.

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IBM Power Systems can handle sophisticated requirements that commodity x86 hardware cannot.

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Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service and Backup and Recovery-as-a-Service

(DRAAS & BRAAS)

Through KeyCloud, we also provide enterprise-grade DRaaS and BRaaS hybrid cloud solutions. We can prepare you for disaster and manage your entire backup and data restoration process in the cloud.

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Disaster Recovery-as-a-ServiceA real solution for today’s disaster recovery challenges

• Customized solutions for every individual client

• ‘Always on’ performance without hardware

• Guaranteed recovery time and point objectives

• Non-disruptive tests of your production environments

Backup and Recovery-as-a-ServiceWe have what it takes to manage your backup process

• SSAE-16, HIPAA, and PCI compliant

• Fully managed with NOC support

• 99.999% uptime SLA on hardware, network and storage

• Compatible with all major technologies (VMware, Cisco, AIX, IBM i, Windows, Linux)

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When it comes to creating a hybrid cloud, we understand that organizations want customized o�erings and personal service from a provider who will be a trusted partner for them for years to come. Whether you’d like to get a better understanding of your on- and o�-premises needs, or want to see our hybrid solutions in action, we can help.

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Learn more about KeyCloudVisit keycloud.com to learn more about our always on, enterprise cloud services that can be customized to �t your business needs

Get a free cloud assessmentBetter understand the mix of on and o�-premises that your organization requires through a KeyInfo Hybrid Architecture Assessment

Sources: 1IBM Institute of Business Value, 2016 eBook: Tailoring Hybrid Cloud | 2RightScale, 2016 Cloud Computing Trends: State of the Cloud Survey

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