Hybrid Cloud: What Is It?

Technological advancements in hardware and software computing and the deployment of resilient high-speed networks offer companies numerous possibilities to build tailor-made digital infrastructures. Protocols ensure greater interaction between the various components of information systems, promoting the construction of homogeneous and high-performance infrastructures. By merging a private and public cloud and your local infrastructure into the same logical construction, you establish a hyperconverged (HCI), elastic, agile, and secure environment. This hybrid cloud managed by Windows Server interconnects these different resources for greater operational efficiency of the company and users, and cost optimization.

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 local 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, made up 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 hyperconverged hybrid infrastructure, your virtual servers, your private networks, and your clusters.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Management of Your Software Assets

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

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Management of Your Software Assets

By connecting your information system to a hybrid cloud infrastructure with Windows Server and Azure, you secure the allocation of resources for the execution on your hyperconverged systems of the most common workloads, such as database management, file and printing 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 office-type application versions in on-premise mode. By distributing the workload between the cloud and user workstations in this way, you optimize the management of your software assets. You integrate licenses that precisely meet the functional needs of all users, 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 for optimizing your software assets.

Valuation of Your Software Assets

From specifying the needs of your user groups and mapping your software assets used on your hybrid cloud and client workstations, you can decommission all unnecessary 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 videoconferencing...) being managed on your hybrid cloud, you can retain or equip different user workstations with perpetual software licenses like Office 2016 or Office 2019, instead of on-demand versions of Office 365. By integrating second-hand software licenses, you save up to 80% on the software part and extend the lifespan of your computers. With the savings made through the sale and purchase of second-hand on-premise licenses on the Softcorner marketplace, you can finance other IT projects related to security, mobility, multicloud...