What can a cloud-hosted data center offer?

As businesses painfully realize that any set-up and operation of cloud computing is easy to implement, the adoption of an internal cloud is still much slower than the public cloud. Business risk aversion and complexity pose a lot of risks, and for most companies it is very expensive to hire people with expertise to build and manage the internal cloud. As a result, a self-managed cloud or cloud-hosted data center is becoming a new solution for the enterprise to consider. Let's look at what the cloud-hosted data center can offer. How it works, and what its drawbacks are.

　　

What cloud-hosted data center can provide _ Hongkong Kwai Fong IDC data Center

What is a cloud-hosted data center?

　　

In a cloud-hosted datacenter, the "brain" in the cloud receives telemetry from internal devices and helps to discover, start, configure, or monitor on-premises deployments. Unlike using managed service providers, users rely on cloud computing to handle significant operations or upgrades. This helps reduce the need for remote sites, enabling IT staff to achieve a single attempt to centralize management and all assets. Different departments in the IT market are leveraging the cloud-hosted architecture for WiFi management and other tasks, and then analyze how the cloud-hosted architecture deploys services for the private cloud.

　　

The challenge of a private cloud

　　

The private cloud faces the following 3 challenges:

　　

Technical challenges: Technology becomes complex due to the integration of additional abstraction layers and resources.

　　

People challenge: It's hard to find experts who are proficient in all areas of cloud computing, virtualization, storage and networking

　　

Process challenges: Enterprises must set up new processes to handle the self-service of cloud consumption, and developers can upload their own mirrors and create their own networks, switches, routers, software firewalls, load balancers, and storage.

　　

AI drives cloud-hosted data centers

　　

How do companies get into cloud computing if they don't invest in the internal cloud because of technical, human, and process challenges? Artificial intelligence (AI) will become the key, and it is entering many areas, such as the rise of autonomous cars. Because of artificial intelligence, cars are easier to drive, while also reducing accidents and parking irregularities.

　　

With artificial intelligence, businesses can replace a large number of professional employees with cloud hosting. If the enterprise's IT infrastructure can be hosted by the cloud, the enterprise can minimize the tasks being performed to provide a more strategic view of the enterprise's work, or more time for training or planning. The private cloud for automated services is inspired by public cloud providers that implement larger-scale services through software-driven operations.

　　

Properties of the cloud-hosted data center

　　

In a cloud-hosted data center, software is used for self-healing, 7x24-hour monitoring and management, and visualization services.

　　

Innovation-Cloud-hosted data centers simplify the creation of private cloud environments and address complex and time-consuming hardware deployments, software installation, and configuration issues. Using preconfigured hyper-converged devices as a platform for a private cloud, the cloud-hosted datacenter does not need to install any software components or perform any configuration.

　　

Monitoring-Cloud-hosted data centers use cloud-based software for monitoring and self-healing. This self-healing software significantly reduces the need for users to hire and train specialists. Every cloud infrastructure requires a monitoring and operations center, while a cloud-hosted datacenter includes a monitoring and operational layer.

　　

Visualization-The data collection layer for monitoring is also used to generate visualizations about applications, provide visibility into infrastructure bottlenecks, and help place applications in public and private cloud infrastructures.

　　

The solution is at the heart of a cloud computing brain, which is built on big data clusters for observing and directing cloud decisions. Changed events, statistics, and health checks are delivered to the cloud brain for complex processing to increase automation levels, improve average recovery events, alert management teams to emerging issues, and provide visibility into cloud hosting.

　　

Advantages and Disadvantages

　　

Businesses benefit from cloud-hosted data centers because they can build and operate a private cloud faster, and save human resources. It resources can focus on strategic planning rather than cloud operations, and administrators who operate cloud-hosted datacenters are much less than manually managed data centers.

　　

On the other hand, the disadvantage of AI is as obvious as the advantages it brings: it requires the administrator's decision-making power. The AI can only make decisions based on the algorithm it is given, and the cloud-hosted datacenter may not fully fulfill the administrator's expectations. We will use the following scenarios as examples and think about how to solve these problems:

　　

What if the internet goes down?

　　

This is a concern for public cloud and software as a service (SaaS), where the solution provider should provide a graphical user interface (GUI)/Command line interface (CLI) for on-premises software, and ensure that all data on the client is local, in the case of a cloud-hosted infrastructure.

　　

My infrastructure is not telemetry

　　

If this is the case, your company may still be using the SaaS product, which is unaware that the SaaS product is always sending information. They typically use a 443HTTPS port, which is widely used for secure connections. So, if you're using a product such as Salesforce, you're actually sending telemetry over port 443.

　　

I don't trust the cloud hosting model

　　

As in any way, it takes time for the cloud-hosted model to gain trust. With the development of SaaS and public cloud services, the concept of distributed architecture has become more and more mainstream.

　　
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In an era of increasingly complex data center infrastructures, companies have only two choices: continue to add IT staff, or increasingly rely on automation to manage complexity. The cloud-hosted data center is in its infancy, but the idea of using cloud brains to simplify local management is expected to be mainstream in the future.

What can a cloud-hosted data center offer?