Nowadays, the use of tools and applications is a necessity to ensure a certain quality of service and to maintain the IT estate.
Applications are often hungry for hardware resources, which leads to a multiplication of hardware and generates higher monitoring and maintenance costs, as well as additional investment costs. Some applications only need hardware resources (computing capacity, RAM, etc.) temporarily for deferred batch runs or load peaks.
Take the example of Black Friday, where dedicated resources are devoted to handling one-off consumption peaks, a suboptimal decision in terms of investment.
It is therefore essential for professionals to equip themselves with a series of virtualization tools, as well as tools for automatically provisioning servers, increasing a machine’s capacity to respond to load peaks and automating the provisioning, loading and execution of scripts to subtly meet applications’ demands without interruption.
The answer to this problem lies in the automation and industrialization of private Cloud implementation!
The steps are simple:
- The preliminary step to be taken is to carry out an inventory of the application estate and its sizing in terms of resources. New metrics appeared a few years ago with the arrival of HPC (high-performance computing), including numerous IOPS, QPS etc., which replace the number of cores, µP frequency, storage and many other metrics. Dedicated performance with the advantages of the Cloud!
- The second step rests on the choice of the Cloud platform, a very important step in a Private Cloud implementation project. In addition to cost issues, the platform’s compatibility with existing hardware must be taken into account. The earlier investments still have to be made profitable.
- The third step – the most complicated step in projects of this type – consists of migrating all tools, applications and platforms to the Private Cloud. This is a brief and succinct presentation, given that each project has its specificities and that the complexity lies in the details!
That is why more and more companies are undertaking private Cloud implementation projects.
