TOP 7 BENEFITS OF HYBRID IT TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

 Staying Ahead in the Cloud Era

In today's digital age, organisations are always looking for ways to stay ahead of the competition and meet the changing demands of their customers. One way to do this is by adopting a Hybrid IT approach.

By using both on-premises and cloud-based technology, organisations can benefit from the best of both worlds, whether it's increased scalability, cost-efficiency, or improved data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.

In this blog post, we'll dive into the different types of Hybrid IT solutions and how they can help organisations to stay ahead in today's fast-paced digital landscape.

Types of Hybrid IT solutions:

1. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI): HCI combines compute, storage, and networking resources into a single, unified system. This allows for greater simplicity, scalability, and cost-efficiency, as well as improved performance and disaster recovery capabilities. 2. Software-Defined Storage (SDS): SDS is a type of storage architecture that allows for greater flexibility and scalability, by abstracting storage resources from their underlying hardware. This can help organisations to more easily adjust to changing storage needs and improve disaster recovery capabilities. 3. Data Center-to-Disaster Recovery (DC-DR) Solutions: DC-DR solutions help organisations to protect their data and applications from disaster by replicating them to a secondary data centre. This can include both on-premises and cloud-based solutions. 4. Container Platforms: A container platform is a solution that allows organisations to package and deploy applications and their dependencies in a self-contained environment. This can help to improve the performance, scalability, and portability of applications, and make it easier to move workloads between on-premises and cloud environments.

7 Benefits of using a Hybrid IT approach:

1. Flexibility: Hybrid IT allows organisations to choose the best platform for a given workload, whether it's on-premises or in the cloud. This allows organisations to create a customised IT environment that best fits their specific needs.

2. Improved Scalability: By using both on-premises and cloud-based resources, organisations can scale resources as needed, to meet changing business requirements. 3. Cost-efficiency: Hybrid IT allows organisations to take advantage of the cost-efficiency of cloud-based resources, while also reducing the need for large capital investments in on-premises infrastructure. 4. Improved Data Protection: By replicating data and applications to a secondary location, organisations can improve their disaster recovery capabilities, helping to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster. 5. Better Management of Resources: Hybrid IT service allows organisations to manage resources more efficiently, by abstracting resources from their underlying hardware, or by consolidating compute, storage and networking into a single, unified system. 6. Improved Security: Container platforms or using cloud-based services, can help organisations to improve security and compliance, by isolating applications and their dependencies from other parts of the IT environment. 7. Compliance: For companies with data compliance regulations like HIPPA, PCI-DSS and others, a Hybrid IT approach can give them more control over their data, as they can opt to keep sensitive data on-premises, while leveraging the scalability and cost-efficiency of the cloud for less sensitive data. In conclusion, With the ever-changing digital landscape, it is important for organisations to stay agile and adaptable, and Hybrid IT approach is a good way to achieve that. Skylark Information Technologies, a leading Hybrid IT solutions provider, can help organisations to better manage resources, improve security and compliance, and create a customised IT environment that best fits their specific needs. Choose Skylark and Stay ahead in the Cloud Era!!

Top 7 Features of SD-WAN

Seven Key Features of SD-WAN - Explained!

        The realm of business is evolving day by day. Yesterday’s inventions are getting outdated by today’s experiments. Technological developments sculpt the business landscapes day by day with innovations. To keep up with the updates is the most challenging job for organisations in order to improve their market performance or at least to maintain the status quo. One such technological advancement that makes the organisations keep up with their networking and remote connectivity is SD WAN. Partnering with Cisco, Fortinet and Silverpeak, Skylark Information Technologies provides top class SD-WAN services.

What is SD WAN?

        Software Defined Wide Area Network, as name suggests is a virtual WAN architecture that securely provides IT infrastructure solutions, control and management between the organisation and the applicants in a cost effective way. In layman’s terms, SD-WAN simplifies the branch office connectivity, increases reliability, optimises application performance and increases network agility.

Features of SD-WAN:

    1. Encrypted overlay network 

        Cyber threats pose a lot of concerns in the information domain.In order to address them, Business over the entire network would be encrypted to avoid any cyber crimes leading to data loss. It should also be policy- driven. SD- WAN provides an encrypted network to reduce the security concerns. Upgrade your business by encrypting your entire network with Skylark.

    2. Data services independence 

        In order to reduce the processing speed and lags, and also to be safe from any cyber threats, data should be independently stored from application as well as in different data services. The SD- WAN has the capability of connecting multiple stations with different orders of internet data services and  deployments and helps with Data services independence.

    3. Real- time monitoring 

        Monitoring, evaluation and feedback are very important in managing any kind of Enterprise Networks. In order to achieve that, the chosen SD- WAN is equipped in collecting real- time data statistics. Learn how Skylark's Enterprise Networking Solutions can help you!

    4. Endpoints 

        Ideally, SD- WAN  would connect with every endpoint from any operation and software, making it more compatible.

    5. Traffic balancing 

        As the volume of the business increases, there would be a definite probability of decrease in the processing speed. As a solution to this, the SD-WAN would ensure that the bandwidth is efficiently employed to manage several incoming as well as humongous business requests.

    6. Resiliency

      Due to high volume of traffic or because of any technical issue, there is always a chance of failure of the data centre network. To address this problem, SD- WAN would have resilient failover features.Policy- grounded routing Algorithms that use real- time statistics to find the most optimal paths for a specific operation would be included.

    7. Advanced security and VPN features 

        Inorder to provide security solutions, SD- WAN would immaculately have advanced security features similar to cutting edge firewall, a security web gateway, and advanced cyber protection.

From the above discussed features, it is clear that shifting from the existing MPLS based networks to SD-WAN would be the wisest decision in Remote connectivity based on its cost effectiveness and quality assurance. Explore the numerous benefits of SD-WAN and Campus and Branch Networking with the experts from Skylark Information Technologies

SD WAN, THE GAME CHANGER FOR REMOTE CONNECTIVITY

(sectors doesn’t matter but connectivity does)

The 21st century,era of information technology, is galloping ahead with new scientific inventions and infrastructure developments with the speed of light(metaphorically of course). Digital transformation and Networking is everywhere starting from a supermarket franchise to the development of supercomputers. Starting from hospitals to financial entities. If an organization has more than one branch, cloud management and WAN are compulsory elements irrespective of the sector it belongs.

Along with the need,an important concern also arises in the form of cloud security. Can one’s cloud be secured? During the first wave of covid 19,the number of concerns started rising such as what about hybrid IT work culture? Can employees work from home without any network issues? Can remote connectivity be optimized?

For an example,let’s take the health sector. The number of multi speciality hospitals and their branches are multiplying in god speed as the necessity as well as affordability among the mass is increasing on a daily basis. With the growing number of new diseases and the poor ratio of doctors to patients, more hospitals and branches are inevitable. Who would have imagined that a microscopic virus would turn the world order on its head and make the health care sector the most prioritized one?

Pandemic showed the world how much cloud management and remote connectivity mattered to save lives. The very small time window within which the life or death of the patient is determined i.e. golden time can be used only when the institution possesses the patient details and medical history irrespective of the patient’s regular hospital. S/he could be from Tamil Nadu but now needs medical attention in Mumbai. How will the medical center get hold of his records? The specialist doctor who needs to attend to the patient in emergency is out of station. Then how can the patient get treated? Every medical institution with more than one branch has to be digitized and needs a cloud to store and access the medical data remotely. And also needs secured connections around the world between medical centers and the specialist to make accurate diagnosis and provide timely treatment. Solution for all of these is a secured network with remote connectivity i.e. SD WAN!!

Skylark Information Technologies partnering with  FORTINET, SILVERPEAK and other renowned companies, provide SD WAN connections through immaculate services, products and end to end customer services with competitive price.

Not just for the health care sector, any kind of enterprise irrespective of the sector it belongs to,which is in need of reliable,efficient and secured remote connectivity,SD WAN is the one stop solution for it.

Software defined WAN is not only providing direct cloud access,multi- cloud connectivity,flexible connectivity options and an user friendly interface,but also next generation security.

Dx without Sx is nothing but an achilles heel to every network. Isn’t it?

Cisco and Microsoft are bypassing mpls and sending their SD WAN traffic to the cloud. Fortinet introduces enhanced AIops capabilities across its SD WAN and as per Openpr, SD WAN market is expected to reach $43 billion revenue by 2030. These clearly signals how SD WAN is going to shift the enterprises from traditional wan to SD WAN solution.

To run the race along with the dx,Skylark is here to provide world class enterprise networking solutions such as Data center networking,Wi-fi solutions,SD WANs and campus & branch networking in India. Contact Skylark today for any Networking related consultations.