Hybrid Cloud: What is it?

Technological advancements in hardware and software computing and the deployment of high-speed resilient networks offer companies numerous possibilities to build custom digital infrastructures. Protocols ensure greater interaction between the different components of information systems, promoting the construction of homogeneous and high-performance infrastructures. By merging a private and public cloud with your local infrastructure into a single logical construct, you establish a hyper-converged (HCI), elastic, agile, and secure environment. This hybrid cloud managed by Windows Server interconnects these different resources, enhancing the operational efficiency of the company and its users, while optimizing costs.

Windows Server, the Architect of Your Hybrid Cloud

By using Windows Server and Azure (Microsoft's cloud services platform), you build a hybrid cloud infrastructure and extend your on-premises servers to Azure to access all available on-demand services. This virtualization technology allows you to distribute your local instances to your virtual servers, deploy hybrid file servers, virtualize your storage and backup servers, and leverage cloud-native applications. Your hybrid cloud infrastructure, consisting of servers and virtual networks, will connect your local environment to the resources of your private and public cloud instances, which you can provision on demand. To manage this Azure IaaS infrastructure, you have the full web application Windows Admin Center, available only to Windows Server users. With this interface, you will manage the entirety of your hyper-converged hybrid infrastructure, your virtual servers, your private networks, and your clusters.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Software Asset Management

By connecting your information system to a hybrid cloud infrastructure with Windows Server and Azure, you secure the allocation of resources for executing the most common workloads on your hyper-converged systems, such as database management, file and print services, collaborative applications like SharePoint, Exchange, virtual desktop, your ERP...

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Software Asset Management

By connecting your information system to a hybrid cloud infrastructure with Windows Server and Azure, you secure the allocation of resources for executing the most common workloads on your hyper-converged systems, such as database management, file and print services, collaborative applications like SharePoint, Exchange, virtual desktop, your ERP...

Optimal Workload Distribution

Installing all collaborative functions and applications on your hybrid cloud instances allows you to equip each user workstation with on-premise office-type application versions. By distributing the workload this way between the cloud and user workstations, you optimize the management of your software assets. You integrate for all users the licenses that precisely meet their functional needs, without being forced to follow the release pace of new on-demand versions imposed by publishers. By implementing an asset management strategy in your organization and using the Softcorner marketplace, you activate powerful levers to optimize your software assets.

Valuation of Your Software Assets

Based on the specification of your user groups' needs and the mapping of your software assets used on your hybrid cloud and client workstations, you can decommission all unused licenses from your information system, value them, and resell them on the Softcorner marketplace. The collaborative part of your information system (management application, document sharing, communication, and Zoom video conferencing...) being managed on your hybrid cloud, you can retain or equip different user workstations with perpetual software licenses like Office 2016 or Office 2019, rather than on-demand versions of Office 365. By integrating second-hand software licenses, you save up to 80% on software costs and extend the lifespan of your computers. With the savings achieved through the sale and purchase of second-hand on-premise licenses on the Softcorner marketplace, you can fund other IT projects related to security, mobility, multicloud...