Every organisation will make its own journey to the Cloud.
Some will be happy for their data to sit in the Public Cloud where, with the right precautions, it can be safe, though not completely free of the risk of compromise. For others, only the option of a protected and highly secure Private Cloud will suffice for their highly sensitive data.
A Private Cloud can be on premise, but it can also be at a secure data centre. Data centre solutions – from simple Co-location through to Managed Hosting - enable organisations to run business-critical infrastructure in a highly secure environment.
Private Cloud is also about control – complete control over where you host your mission critical data and applications, giving you peace of mind over the location and the sovereignty of your data, the life blood of the organisation.
We own and manage six secure UK data centres that not only deliver the best of Private Cloud, but also guarantee data sovereignty – vital for government and tightly regulated organisations, or for protectively marked information.
Whatever the journey is, we can deliver private cloud as a managed service in a wide range of different ways, tailored precisely to each customer’s needs including fully hosted options, extensions to your LAN and more.
Public Cloud resources are highly elastic. They can be scaled up and down, quickly and easily, whenever you need that extra/less bandwidth, and it can all be done relatively inexpensively.
Couple that with the multitude of enablement technologies available in the modern public cloud and you’ll see how a cloud infrastructure really can open the door to wider markets and new opportunities for growth.
Data security doesn’t need to be a deal-breaking issue either, with the right precautions, we can help you enjoy all the cost-effective benefits of the Public Cloud while staying more secure than you might expect with total data isolation, private networks for data segregation and managed firewalling.
Our industry-leading skills in design, configuration, migration, monitoring, security and connectivity, coupled with our vendor partnerships, can offer our customers secure and confident access to the Public Cloud based on leading hyperscale cloud provider offerings, combined with expert consultancy to maximise your benefits.
We can also support our customers with a portal for real-time usage assessment. This enables you to keep an even tighter grip on costs by instantly adjusting consumption of cloud resources as required.
All cloud services delivered by Capita IT and Networks meet stringent compliance requirements, and our vendor credentials ensure total visibility and control for our clients.
Combining Public Cloud services with your own Private Cloud or traditional on-prem data centre hosting can give many organisations the best of both worlds - rapid scalability and extra security. This hybrid of the two allows for a customised, cost-effective solution, and delivers an infrastructure that can easily flex to an organisation’s needs and the nature of its data. This aids in offboarding technical debt and allows more freedom for tighter budgets.
With storage tiering and network isolation, data can be protected wherever it resides, on the most cost-effective storage it requires, optimising storage and resources where they’re needed most.
Businesses can save money by allocating workloads to the most suitable environment, protecting sensitive data without paying unnecessarily to safeguard less critical information. Capita’s cloud experts specialise in helping clients do this in the most convenient and optimal way.
When seasonal demands or project workloads call for it (website promotions for Christmas, financial year end, data model processing, etc.), Capita’s Hybrid Cloud enables our clients to quickly expand their use of the public cloud element to cope with spikes in demand meaning the best return on your cloud investment. Rationalising your data centre estate this way can also help reduce your carbon footprint by removing dependence on your existing and costly on-premise hardware.
Organisations can decide just how much secure Private and Public Cloud they need and invest accordingly, making this a versatile and cost-efficient solution. The platform can be set up so the two clouds talk freely to each other while still ring fencing the elements that need to be kept completely secure.
Hybrid Cloud can also be a useful stepping stone on the way to a full Public cloud ecosystem, minimising risk, smoothing and supporting the migration process allowing organisations to make the move at their own pace.