Manual, time-intensive work. Disconnected activities. Lack of time for high-value projects.
These are the biggest issues we hear from our customers regardless of size or industry. So how can we work to solve them?
When working to implement a private cloud, addressing systems holistically with a full-stack approach can alleviate those issues and help:
- Reduce manual labor
- Reduce inefficient resource allocation
- Increase flexibility and scalability
Creating a resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructure with a full-stack approach can help ensure that your IT ecosystem is not just operational but also primed for future growth and innovation.
9 steps to create your infrastructure
Each of the steps below – an excerpt from our latest white paper on private cloud – can help you construct your private cloud with layers and components appropriate for your desired outcomes and target states.
1. Assess cloud readiness: Evaluate your current IT environment to determine readiness for transitioning to a private cloud.
2. Design and deploy virtual resources: Utilize a reference architecture to design and deploy virtual compute, network, and storage solutions.
3. Integrate and configure a cloud operations platform: Seamlessly integrate and fine-tune a cloud operations platform for optimal performance and management.
4. Network segmentation and security: Implement network segmentation using distributed firewalls to enhance security.
5. Implement security standards: Adopt and enforce robust security protocols to safeguard your infrastructure.
6. Define data center services and team roles: Outline your team’s roles and required skills in relation to data center services.
7. Automate operational processes: Streamline and automate key operational processes for efficiency.
8. Develop platform lifecycle management capabilities: Foster capabilities to effectively manage the platform’s lifecycle.
9. Establish KPIs and metrics: Define key performance indicators and metrics to measure success and guide continuous improvement.
An essential aspect of a strong infrastructure is its ability to adapt to changing demands and efficient scaling. It requires employing dynamic scalability mechanisms, optimizing resource allocation, and implementing elastic solutions that can expand or contract in response to workload fluctuations to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.
Create domains for your workloads
Incorporating and combining relevant domains helps create a unified infrastructure framework that operates seamlessly and supports the diverse needs of your organization. Examples of management workload domains include orchestration and automation, resource monitoring and optimization, policy enforcement and governance, service catalog and user management, and reporting and analytics.
Virtual infrastructure domain examples include virtual machines (VMs), hypervisors, storage virtualization, network virtualization, containerization technologies, and software-defined infrastructure (SDI).
Domains will help facilitate efficient management, authentication, and accessibility of resources.
Learn more
If your organization wants to gain a competitive advantage by implementing a private cloud, a comprehensive approach with a solid strategy and clear roadmap ensures that your efforts align with business goals and avoid possible pitfalls such as prolonged timelines and escalated costs. Learn more about taking a full-stack approach to implementing private cloud from our latest white paper, “Beyond the Basics: Actionable Guidelines to Implement Private Cloud.”
