It's time to uncover the mystery of the hybrid cloud architecture!

The momentum of the hybrid cloud architecture is surging. In addition to a large number of Internet companies that are actively embracing hybrid cloud, many traditional companies have also begun to gradually explore digital transformation and seek intelligent development. According to a Gartner report, by 2025, the proportion of hyper-converged infrastructure applications in the data center, cloud, and edge will be basically the same.

So, what advantages can the hybrid cloud architecture bring to enterprises? What technical challenges will the use of hybrid cloud architecture add to enterprises? This article will start with the scenario of exploring hybrid cloud in the manufacturing industry, and take you to uncover the mystery of hybrid cloud architecture.

Why is the hybrid cloud architecture favored by the manufacturing industry?

For traditional enterprises at this stage, going to the cloud is already a consensus reached by the industry, but how to go to the cloud is still a primary issue that needs to be considered. We have observed that manufacturing companies of different sizes face different pain points:

For large manufacturing companies, because there are multiple software and hardware platform information systems running at the same time, the system data is independent of each other, resulting in scattered distribution of digital assets of the company and high maintenance costs; for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies, it is mainly affected by scale. Limitations of factors such as, capital, etc., make the digital foundation even weaker.

Based on the above-mentioned pain points, traditional manufacturing companies can deploy hybrid cloud architectures, while retaining the original local data center resources, while also being able to use public cloud platforms to achieve elastic expansion of resources, making up for local data center security protection, data storage backup, etc. Shortcomings of insufficient ability.

Deploying a hybrid cloud is easy and difficult

The advantages that hybrid cloud brings to enterprises are self-evident, but the process of exploring a multi-cloud environment is also full of complexity, which is bound to bring challenges to the efficient collaboration of resources, data, and applications.

For example, under the constraints of data sovereignty and low latency, enterprises need to choose local cloud construction, but at the same time they want to innovate like public clouds, which brings construction complexity and difficulty in operation and maintenance for enterprises. How to achieve unified integration and management of resources, and consistent access and collaboration of data in a complex cloud environment has become an urgent problem for enterprises to solve. In addition to issues such as coordination and consistency, how to maximize resource utilization is also a major problem facing enterprises.

Microsoft and Dell Technologies Help the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing

In order to help enterprises solve the problem of hybrid cloud deployment, at the Ignite China 2021 conference, Microsoft and Intel, Dell Technology Group and other partners jointly initiated a discussion on the Azure hybrid cloud solution. The main features of the solution are as follows:

• Single management platform : Through Azure Arc, the mature management functions of Azure cloud can be extended to any infrastructure, unified management of the state of applications and infrastructure, and it can also run first in local data centers, cross-cloud environments, and edge nodes Fang Azure services, including Azure SQL, Postgres SQL, application services and Azure machine learning, etc.
• Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes : Enterprise users can implement unified application deployment, policy compliance checks and corrections, and real-time cluster monitoring through Azure Arc cross-cloud containers, which means that enterprises can flexibly deploy and expand cloud-native applications in hybrid cloud Kubernetes , And can establish a single interface view of the entire cluster, use the same management tools in different infrastructures, and improve the consistency and efficiency of the application life cycle.
• hyper-converged infrastructure : Azure Stack HCI hyper-converged infrastructure solution, which supports the virtualization of computing, storage and network on hardware systems of multiple configurations and brands, and also supports the upgrade of existing old servers and storage to The hyper-converged solution of certified hardware partners, and the integration of built-in hybrid functions and Azure Arc to modernize the data center in a cost-effective manner.
• extends the data center to the cloud and realizes pay-as-you- : Simplify IT operations by extending the data center to the cloud through Azure Stack HCI, and manage its local workloads through Azure services provided by Azure subscriptions. In addition, through Azure Stack HCI, you can pay on demand, flexibly adjust according to business peaks and troughs, and have better scalability in terms of scalability.
• one-stop purchase, full life cycle support : Azure Stack HCI operating system is equipped with more than 200 standard x86 hardware and component solutions from more than 20 hardware partners, providing the best cost-effective experience. There is no additional cost to obtain the Windows Server 2008 R2 security update. Through a one-stop purchase, enterprises can get an out-of-the-box hyper-converged experience.

In addition to the technical advantages mentioned above, the hybrid cloud solution can also perform unified management of local hosts, virtual machines and Azure cloud resources managed by Azure Stack HCI, seamlessly connecting to the cloud's Azure backup, security center, site recovery and other services , And get regular and consistent function and security updates, further alleviating the pressure of enterprise operation and maintenance. Looking at Microsoft's official website, we found that since the hybrid cloud solution was opened to the Chinese market, it has helped many manufacturing industries to build digital smart factories, such as the world's bearing giants SKF (SKF), Anmai Aluminum and so on.

In the upcoming Ignite China 2022, customers from SKF (SKF) and Almaty Aluminum will speak out and talk about the process of deploying hybrid cloud in the manufacturing industry. Today, when the value of cloud computing is highly recognized, how to ensure low latency in data processing? How to weigh the sensitivity of applications and data? While taking into account the above requirements, how to achieve business application innovation? You can find answers to all topics related to building a modern digital factory here!

Welcome to click [ here ] or [Scan the QR code to sign up] to come to Microsoft Ignite China 2022 and witness the wonderful spark of hybrid cloud and manufacturing!

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