The cloud, either internal or private, is something towards which leading IT organizations have been working for years. It starts with datacenter consolidation, rationalization of hardware and software platforms, and virtualization up and down the stack – servers, storage and network.
Elasticity and pay-as-you-grow pricing are guiding principles, which imply standardization, automation and make it an IT commodity.
There are certain steps during the journey from environment to cloud. First, the starting point must be defined. ByteLife offers a variety of consulting services to help the customer gather information, ideas and build a roadmap to align the system with best practices. The second phase is implementation. Bytelife reference cloud infrastructure is based on the following vendor products:
- EMC -Storage, backup and security (RSA)
- Cisco – Servers, network and security
- VMware – Server and desktop virtualization
The third phase is to secure cloud services. “Securing” means everything from business continuity and data availability to securing data and access to it.