The Cloud: Private, Public or Hybrid
The cloud
The search for the right (hybrid) cloud solution and cloud partner does not happen overnight. What is the best cloud strategy for your organisation? Private Cloud? Public Cloud? Or Hybrid Cloud after all? Do you want to combine the scalability and low costs of the public cloud of major international players, such as Microsoft or Amazon, with a private cloud where your business-critical applications and data are securely available? Perhaps you also have hardware within your company walls that you want to keep or, conversely, house and manage elsewhere. Whatever your requirements, you want to make the right choices and be ready for new developments in the future. As an involved and strategic partner, Previder advises, builds and manages your cloud environment. Because you can't have one without the other.
Different cloud types
To arrive at an effective cloud strategy, it is important to know what types of cloud there are. Once you understand this, you can also gain advantages by combining different types. In the world of cloud, we talk about Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud. At Previder, in addition to these three, we also have our own cloud environment that you can use, the Previder Cloud.
Previder Cloud
The Previder Cloud is our own cloud environment, hosted from our own rack space in our own data centre. Via our portal, you can manage your own cloud environment easily and flexibly. You only pay for what you use. Arrange your IaaS, backup, storage, data centre hosting, colocation and much more yourself via the portal.
Benefits of the cloud
Scalable
When you work in the cloud, you can always tailor your resources flexibly to what you need at the time.
Future-proof
A cloud solution is not a given. In the future, you can easily respond to changes you cannot foresee now.
Efficient
No more searching: with a well-designed cloud solution, data and applications are in exactly the right place for your organisation.
Time-saving
With a cloud solution, you spend much less time on IT management. You can spend that time focusing on innovation, for example.
Freedom of choice
Manage all your IT yourself, do only part of it yourself or outsource everything in the form of managed services? It is up to you!
Private cloud
In a private cloud, you use your own hardware, either at your company location (on-premise) or in a data centre (colocation). On-premise involves substantial costs for management, staff and power consumption, for example. With colocation, these costs are lower and you also benefit from guarantees and other advantages of a data centre.
Public cloud
With the public cloud, your data is stored at relatively low cost in a cloud environment of a large (international) player, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon or Google. The disadvantage is that you do not know where your data is located, making it unsuitable for business-critical applications or privacy-sensitive data.
Hybrid cloud
A hybrid cloud environment is a combination of a private cloud and a remote public cloud. Hybrid cloud environments offer many advantages. For example, you can choose to keep privacy-sensitive data in your private cloud while reaping the benefits of applications from the public cloud.
Extra cloudservices
For the further realisation of your cloud solution, you can use various services, which together form the “cloud stack”: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS+).
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
IaaS is used as the basis for hosting business-critical applications. Accessible, functional and flexible. Increase your business continuity and manage your cloud yourself. Discover the possibilities.
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
PaaS is the cloud platform to host applications and websites with a high dynamic workload. Without high investments and without worrying about updates, maintenance and complex management tasks.