Hybrid hosting leverages the best features of multiple deployment platforms such as colocation, managed hosting or cloud into a single optimized IT environment. By using multiple platforms, you can achieve the highest performance solution while having the most flexibility with one IT Infrastructure partner. Using Layer 2 connectivity, we enable true, seamless hybridization that allows different infrastructure platforms to communicate natively without patching disparate network environments.
Hybrid Hosting Benefits:
- Ultimate flexibility by leveraging multiple IT Infrastructure platforms
- Maximum performance by distributing workloads to the optimal environment
- Seamless integration across application tiers without costly modification
- One application environment, one support contact and one invoice
Hybrid Solution Use Cases:
Performance
With a multi-tiered application you can run portions of the application in the cloud, managed hosting, colocation or a combination. In a multi-tiered application, different tiers are best served by optimized platforms. Generally, databases are optimized on non-virtualized dedicated gear, while the cloud is better for elastic web servers and log processing demands. By moving the different application tiers to specialized platforms, you enable the highest performance and can achieve web-scale within a single environment. You want synergy across multiple platforms to maximize your application’s performance, from the code to the customer.
Flexibility
With legacy applications you need to remain on secure dedicated or specialized hardware. These applications may provide core infrastructure services and must be accessible to the entire IT stack. Other applications can be shifted to managed hosting or cloud, reducing administrative overhead, but you need a way to ensure that everything continues to work without any changes to the architecture. By deploying applications in different hosting platforms, you can meet the control and customization requirements for legacy applications and begin reducing IT management burden as new applications can deploy into managed hosting or cloud services. You want hosting options that allow you to deploy each application on the best platform and maintain one support team and one monthly invoice, from one IT infrastructure partner.
