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The disruption brought by cloud computing in otherwise traditional IT began about a decade ago and ever since we observe cloud adoption rates increase continuously. According to a recent study done by RightScale, 95% of the companies utilize Cloud services today and in many cases, without even noticing it.
What are the types of Cloud?
Not all Cloud providers provide the same type of Cloud service and experience as they vary in size and the overall approach to Cloud computing. The main types of cloud are:
Public clouds are owned and operated by third-party service providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Customers benefit from economies of scale because infrastructure costs are spread across all users, thus allowing each individual client to operate on a low-cost, “pay-as-you-go” model. It is also important to note that all customers on public clouds share the same infrastructure pool with limited configurations, security protections and availability variances, as these factors are wholly managed and supported by the service provider.
Private clouds are hosted by an external cloud computing provider. The service provider facilitates an exclusive cloud environment with full guarantee of privacy. This format is recommended for organizations that prefer not to use a public cloud infrastructure due to the risks associated with the sharing of physical resources.
Hybrid clouds combine the advantages of both the public and private cloud worlds. In a hybrid cloud, a company can leverage third-party cloud providers in either a full or partial manner. This increases the flexibility of computing. The hybrid cloud environment is also capable of providing on-demand, externally-provisioned scalability. Augmenting a traditional private cloud with the resources of a public cloud can be used to manage any unexpected surges in workload.
CL8.com helps turn CapEx into OpEx
Without a doubt, today’s financial instability and future uncertainty introduces budgetary cuts and thus maintaining momentum and staying technologically competitive becomes a challenge. The Information Technology (IT) department needs more and more resources due to the increased computational requirements while security threats continuously emerge – leaving organizations without an option but make serious capital intensive investments.
turn €€€€€€ of investment into €€/month expense
CL8.com offers a series of services and solutions to support firms in reducing capital intensive investments into simple operational expense and through a variety of services offered such as:
Colocation Services: Traditionally, organizations have a server room which usually is the most expensive room of a business. Cooling and environmental control, generators, security, fire detection and suppression, UPS batteries and qualified suppliers and vendors to maintain those are just some of the concerns of maintaining a server room. Now add redundancy and Disaster Recovery into the equation and your server room’s requirements are doubled / tripled. At CL8.com, we take care of all of those matters by hosting your firm’s IT equipment with financially backed up Services Level Agreement in our ultra-secure, Tier-3 Datacenter located in Cyprus, with 24/7/365 Support and Security, multiple Internet Providers over redundant connections and Disaster Recovery rooms.
Dedicated Servers: Do you need servers instantly to support an unexpected demand? Do you look replacing your old IT equipment? CL8.com has servers available for rent for a monthly fee to support your demand, for as long as you need it, so you don’t need to invest in servers that you might not need anymore.
Disaster Recovery: CL8.com offers Disaster Recovery services and rooms to support your Business Continuity Planning requirements set by your compliance department or regulator.
Security Services: CL8.com provides a variety of security services to support your defense in depth strategy. Anti-Denial of Service, email / gateway security and encryption are some of the security services CL8.com offers.
CL8.com follows all ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems and ISO 9001 standards in order to secure the quality of services it provides. It also complies fully with PCI DSS Data Security Standards. For more information, please visit our website www.cl8.com
