Advanced Public and Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Secure, highly available, virtualised environments with forecastable and controlled costs.
Build a secure, highly available and scalable environment
Hybrid cloud services combine the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud with the control and security of a private cloud environment, providing organisations with the best of both worlds.
Whether looking to build a full hybrid cloud strategy or to leverage it as a stepping stone to public cloud adoption, Advanced’s Hybrid Cloud Practice provide the expertise and knowledge to help organisations optimise IT operations and achieve greater flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency.
We understand and solve your key issues
We provide services which are designed to solve our customers' key challenges.
- Control
With public cloud, you cannot determine a true TCO (total cost of ownership) associated with the IT infrastructure, and you also have to use the hardware and software the cloud provider offers. With a private cloud you have full control over these choices.
- Costs
Although the on-demand and scalable nature of public cloud services can be advantageous, this also makes it difficult to predict costs and keep track of spending. Hybrid Cloud can make it easy to divide IT consumption into capital and operational costs.
- Security risks
Security is often a concern with the public cloud as you do not have control of the exact location where your data is stored or processed, which can be an issue with certain industry regulations. With Hybrid Cloud, you can keep the most sensitive data and critical workloads on private infrastructure to ensure security.
- Complex Management
Managing hybrid environments can be complex. Our hosting platform is underpinned by VMware infrastructure. It provides advanced tooling to deliver comprehensive monitoring, control and management of infrastructure. VMware will seamlessly balance virtual services in the most performant way, and we utilise VMware NSX-T software defined networking to allow codified management and elastic scaling. To keep things lean and efficient, tooling also delivers sophisticated right-sizing reporting.
Key capabilities
Secure solution
High availability
Forecastable & controlled costs
Scalable
Fully managed service
Continuous optimisation
Consistent support
43%
Of organisations interviewed in our Trends Survey currently use a hybrid approach
53%
of CEOs in our Trends Survey said cyber security is a business priority in the next 12 months
60%
Of CEOs said their investments from the past 2 years don't support the business as it's now run
CAPABILITIES
A range of services to suit your needs
Find out more about our key hybrid cloud services
Managed Hybrid Cloud
FEATURES & BENEFITS
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Colocation Services
Through our colocation services, organisations gain access to a secure and reliable facility to host their IT infrastructure and leverage the benefits of a data centre without the need for significant capital investments in their own facility.
Features
- Rack space, power and cooling for customer owned hardware
- No limits on the type of hardware being hosted – mainframes welcome!
- Tier 3 aligned DCs
- Networking, backup, DR and Management Options:
- Advanced provide fast, resilient connectivity between our data centres
- HSCN, Leased Line, MPLS and VPN connections available
- Enterprise managed back-up
- More secure and lower risk than on-premises computer rooms
- Secure suites, not open to other DC users
- Maximise value of existing hardware
- Enables the write-down of existing investment, rather than replacing it
- Can include appliances and services that can’t be virtualised
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Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Advanced Private Cloud provides a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud, providing organisations with easy scalability and automatic maintenance, without the need for significant infrastructure investments.
Features
- Advanced Private Cloud, based on best of breed hardware and software:
- Cisco Compute, Networking and Firewalls
- IBM SAN Storage
- Brocade Fibre-Channel switching
- VMware vCentre
- Fully Managed Backups, Database Administration, DR and Connectivity
- Backups held in secondary DC
- Built in Security
- 24/7/365 monitoring and security scanning
- Highly Resilient Design
- No single points of failure
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WAN Services
WAN services connect geographically dispersed locations, enabling organisations to transmit data and communications over long distances, with key benefits such as high-speed, reliability, and secure connectivity, essential for businesses with multiple locations or remote workers.
Features
- Includes traditional and Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
- Wide range of connection options:
- MPLS
- Leased Lines
- VPN
- HSCN
- Range of connectivity partners
- Fully managed SD-WAN options
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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
This cloud-based disaster recovery solution that provides organisations with offsite data backup, replication, and recovery services, which results in faster recovery times, reduced downtime, and cost savings compared to traditional disaster recovery methods.
Features
- Disaster Recovery for Advanced hosted customers and anyone with critical IT solutions in any location
- Annual tests
- Wide range of options for RPO and RTO
- Systems can be left in Advanced Private Cloud permanently following an invocation if so desired
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Backup as a Service (including Office365)
This cloud-based backup solution provides organisations with a secure and scalable way to back up their data, with key benefits such as lower costs, improved data security, and simplified management compared to traditional backup methods.
Features
- Backup anything, anywhere
- Geographically separated locations
- Monitored backups with alerts for failures
- Test restores
- Resilient backup and data storage
- Backup service for Office365:
- Includes Mail, SharePoint and Teams data
- Item level restore
- Self Service or fully managed restore available
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Fully Managed Data Centre Services
Advanced's managed data centre services provide organisations with a complete solution for hosting and managing their IT infrastructure, with key benefits such as high reliability, security, and scalability, reduced operational costs, and simplified IT management, enabling IT managers to focus on their core business operations.
Features
- Combine all of the other services in the same data centres, with full ITIL aligned management, support, monitoring and reporting:
- Colocation
- Platform as a Service
- WAN
- DR as a Service
- Backup as a Service
- Hybrid Cloud Solutions including Azure HCI Stack:
- Migration planning and delivery
- Into Advanced DCs or
- To AWS or Azure
- Combine all of the other services in the same data centres, with full ITIL aligned management, support, monitoring and reporting:
CUSTOMERS
Who succeeds with us
A rich, diverse customer base from finance to healthcare and everything in between
”As a charity, it was really important for us to partner with someone that understood what we needed and Advanced did just that – they understood our vision. ”
— Rob Bing, IT Service Manager
St Andrew's Healthcare
Frequently asked questions
- 1. What is Private Cloud?
A private cloud refers to a model of cloud computing where IT services are provisioned over private IT infrastructure for the dedicated use of a single organisation. This setup maintains the scalability and efficiency of cloud computing, but provides a higher level of control and security, making it suitable for businesses with strict data, regulatory, or performance requirements.
Private clouds can be hosted on-premises in the organisation's own data centre, or externally by a third-party provider, but the resources are not shared by other organisations. - 2. What are the benefits of hybrid cloud?
• Greater control: Organisations can maintain a private infrastructure (on-premises/private cloud) for sensitive workloads.
• Increased flexibility: Organisations can scale easily by deploying additional resources to public cloud when required.
• Cost-effectiveness: The ability to scale on demand through public cloud, therefore only paying for compute when required. - 3. What are the challenges of hybrid cloud?
• Complexity around implementation- it can be complex and difficult to implement and manage a hybrid infrastructure.
• Lack of visibility: running an environment with multiple clouds can lead to a greater burden on operations. This can also lead to lack of clear understanding of the current infrastructure, therefore leading to an unclear view of the cloud environment.
• High in-house expenses: Hybrid Cloud can be expensive to run, due to the high costs to maintain on-premises hardware in relation to private cloud. - 4. What is the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud?
The terms multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are often used by customers and businesses to say the same thing. However, in reality there is a difference. Multi-cloud is when an organisation uses more than one public cloud environment whereas hybrid cloud refers to the use of both a public and private cloud environment.
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