Big cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, etc. advertise and offer multiple options to put all the IT a business needs in their clouds. It’s hard to resist the simplicity of public cloud consumption and the promised cloud savings.

But despite the agility and flexibility of the cloud that allows easy access to both software and infrastructure resources to cover any need without having to endure slow and expensive on-premises implementation processes, the cloud environment also demands knowledge and a strategy of migration to the particular public cloud so as not to end up with oversizing and cost overruns.

Consulting For A Migration Plan To The Public Cloud

Migrating to the public cloud without a pre-established strategy is the main cause of failures in the cloud. And that strategy has its starting point in a cloud consultancy that determines the company’s technological needs, assesses the IT assets it has and fully understands the business. Only in this way can a digital transformation plan be configured in which it is decided what must be transferred to the cloud, how and where, and what must remain on-premises, also undertaking its update if necessary.

Because that is the crux of the matter, in corporate IT modernization, not all resources are amenable to moving to the public cloud. It is a mistake to transfer everything to the cloud and expect the same performance as in its physical version. There are assets that, for security reasons or dependency on legacy systems, it is better to keep on-premises. It is essential to be clear about who or what department uses what, when and for what.

It is critical to strike a reasonable balance between physical and cloud resources to deploy an optimal hybrid IT infrastructure. And what systems to migrate to the public cloud? The most common trend is to start with those not the company’s core, that is, to consume cloud resources for developing new applications, opt for services that complement other existing assets at the user level, etc. In any case, the cloud migration roadmap advises going little by little.

Hybrid Cloud Management And Cloud Savings

Proper management of public cloud resources begins with a correct choice of cloud service provider. Once again, the myth of cloud simplicity falls apart because there are dozens of possibilities. With extensive knowledge of the particularities of each option, it is possible to choose the best one. Multicloud environments are born from taking the best of each cloud and not depending on a single cloud provider.

How to succeed in multi-cloud management? Once again, with knowledge about their licensing models, security guarantees, SLAs and legal compliance, etc. This information, together with the conclusions of the previous consulting and evaluation phase, will make it possible to contract what is necessary, avoiding extra costs that often have their origin in contracting too many storage resources, CPU, RAM, network and even Reserved Instances, those assigned to applications with maximum use.

Integrated Corporate IT Platform And Cost Optimization

A continuous evaluation of new and existing cloud resources must complement this optimal migration to the cloud. In this way, some recurring situations in many companies can be detected, such as the operation during weekends of resources linked to services/applications that are not active in that period or the payment for assets linked to projects or developments that are no longer operational in the company.

In other words, it is necessary to apply continuous cloud optimization to guarantee the best performance of resources and the desired cost savings in the cloud. To achieve this, it is essential to have the support of cloud architects and professionals in public cloud management, such as those offered by Orbit Consulting Group to companies. Its performance is combined with its experts in optimizing hybrid infrastructures in which it is possible to consume cloud services both as SaaS and subscription, with implementations of cloud solutions in the company’s physical data center.

The ultimate goal is to build an integrated corporate IT platform of both cloud and on-premises resources that guarantees maximum performance for automated business processes and solutions without end users recognizing where the technology supports them comes from.

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The objective is to easily access all the storage systems that the business needs and get rid of them when they are not required. The infrastructure deployment model in the public cloud and payment for use allows it. But as with other cloud services, it is necessary to apply a strict security plan to the storage solutions contracted in the cloud to prevent the data they house from ending up in the hands of cybercriminals.

Cloud Storage Vulnerabilities

The cloud environment is highly vulnerable. The issue is complicated when the company has a multi-cloud strategy of consuming storage solutions from different providers. Few internal IT teams have the necessary knowledge to manage the various functionalities and particularities of each of them, which change depending on who provides it.

A session that has not been correctly closed, poorly defined and protected passwords, non-existence of multi-factor authentication, errors in the configuration of storage resources. All these circumstances open doors to cyber-attacks, and Cybercriminals continually monitor the internet for vulnerabilities.

Suffering a cyberattack on cloud storage can jeopardize the business of any organization. Accessing critical business data and private personal data has consequences for daily operations, preventing management applications from obtaining the information necessary to execute business processes, directly affecting corporate reputation, and paying high fines for breaking laws such as the GDPR.

Main Cyberthreats For Cloud Storage Services And Solutions

The objectives of cybercriminals to attack databases in the public cloud are several. On the one hand, they can choose to harm the organization by destroying the data contained in the attacked resource. That is, perform a delete. Although, before this operation, they will analyze the information collected to see its value and decide what to do with it. This is called data leakage—selecting critical material and filtration to the highest bidder.

Among the potential buyers of this data, in most cases, is also the company that has been stolen. It is a full-fledged storage ransomware cyberattack, and he is blackmailed for ransom to recover the stolen information. To avoid these cybersecurity risks and protect corporate storage in public cloud services, it is best to delegate its management to a company specialized in hybrid storage infrastructure. We have professionals who know the configuration specifications of the different cloud storage services of hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Our staff is responsible for auditing and managing resources in the cloud, continuously scanning and assessing their degree of protection supported by advanced process automation tools. Thanks to this, it is possible to detect and respond to any threat both in the public cloud assets and in the on-premises that make up the hybrid IT infrastructures of organizations.

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