Your data center is a critical piece in your overall business process. In fact, the two are directly tied together. Business and IT are no longer separate silos. Your application is your business, and software development is the glue that holds it together.
Modern applications provide and consume different services with different needs, and each of those services passes through a number of hands on the journey between conception and production. As a result, there is no single “right” platform for application development and production. For some applications, the quick provisioning of the public cloud may provide an ideal prototyping or dev/test environment, though actual production may happen on in-house servers. For others, competitive or privacy concerns may dictate exactly the opposite strategy.
To extract maximum value from their infrastructure, developers must move beyond their current binary thinking and evaluate platform choice based on the various phases of application development and the many roles that touch an application during those phases. In this whitepaper from Gigaom Research, underwritten by RagingWire Data Centers, we examine how cloud and the modern data center have joined forces for a new IT platform designed for internet applications and businesses alignment.
Here’s the reality: An increasingly large swath of businesses are realizing that the cloud-plus-data-centers model really provides the best of both worlds, and integrating the public virtual cloud with the physical data center is the best way to cost effectively scale, secure, and serve modern production workloads.
In this whitepaper, we found that:
- Public cloud infrastructure is excellent for many use cases, but it exposes only the most common 70 percent or so of the functionality that a business may need.
- The cost, control, and security benefits of a data center can be significant differentiators for business applications.
- Cloud-plus-data-center provides the best option for most businesses, maximizing cost, functionality, and agility benefits.
- What to do and how to prepare if the cloud goes dark.
- Using the right tools for the job. It’s critical to know how to actually align your data center with the cloud. This means understanding capacity, planning around the business, and creating real cloud strategies.
- A one-size-fits-all approach (either all cloud or all in-house) could cripple your business. Successful IT strategies leverage both public cloud and data center assets.
Download this whitepaper today to learn where cloud and the data center have joined forces to create a truly Internet-ready ecosystem built around your applications, business use-cases, and the direct cloud integration.