This presentation by InTechnology’s Stefan Haase gives an overview of Hybrid Hosting, exploring the need for flexible hosting solutions whilst looking at how this can reduce your business hosting footprint, data centre costs and capital expenditure. http://www.intechnology.co.uk/resource-centre/hybrid-hosting-webcast.aspx

1. Hybrid Hosting - Is it right for you?
An overview of Hybrid Hosting
30/11/2012
Stefan Haase – Divisional Product Director

2. Webcast Agenda
•Introduction to InTechnology
•A technical overview of Hybrid Hosting
•Requirements and drivers for Hybrid Hosting
•Why Colocation and IaaS
•Why Hybrid and what it can mean for your business
• What Hybrid Hosting involves
•Summary
•Questions and Answers

3. Introduction to InTechnology
• Serving the UK IT market for nearly 30 years
•Unique position in the managed IT services market
•Full range of managed IT services delivered to over 800 UK
businesses
Your Webcast Presenter
Name: Stefan Haase
Position at InTechnology: Product Director
Time at InTechnology: 10+ Years

4. What is Hybrid Hosting?

5. Raising the Concept of Hybrid Hosting
– What is it?
•The combination of physical co-location and Infrastructure as a
Service (Iaas)
•Offering the flexibility of the cloud alongside traditional hosting
solutions
•Colocation necessary for servers that can’t be virtualised
•IaaS for cloud-ready servers
•Accessible on the same network

6. Hybrid Hosting - Drivers
Where does the requirement for Hybrid Hosting emerge from?
•Budgetary pressures – making the move from capex to opex
•Pressures to move to the cloud
•Business agility and flexibility
•The reduction of risk

7. Why Colocation?

8. Why IaaS?
Storage virtualisation, Virtual Server Hosting and Managed
Dedicated Servers:
•Reduced operating costs
•Unlimited capacity on demand
•Retained management and control
•Improved server and application availability
•Enhanced business continuity and disaster recovery
•Reduced carbon footprint and exposure to green taxes

9. IaaS – virtual machines can be provisioned instantly and thus
allow business ultimate flexibility. The following scenarios are
typical for provisioning:
•Planned new server installation for permanent
•An existing server is modified to meet changing demand
•Proof of concept
•Test and development
IaaS – Deployment options

10. Why Hybrid?
•Best of both worlds - not pushed into one corner
•Paced journey - tailored to customer requirements
•Reduced risk
•Reliability from data centres and networks monitored around
the clock allowing constant access to your data and applications
•Scalability - the ability to add new servers or reconfigure
existing specs to increase capacity as needed
•Operational and commercial flexibility

11. Hybrid – cost savings
savings

12. Hybrid – cost savings
• Co-location: Server consolidation, removing inactive / legacy
equipment and improved rack density can visibly reduce cost
• IaaS: Consolidating under-utilised servers, virtualising
physical servers and providing server and storage
performance where needed rather than over-allocating
resources all contribute to achieving cost savings

13. What does Hybrid Hosting involve?
•Single network
•Seamless migration
•One provider = one SLA
•Dedicated, tailored servers hosted in a managed cloud
•Colocation in highly resilient data centres
•24/7 monitored and managed firewall service

14. Hybrid Hosting – Deployment options
Common service combination that customers opt for are:
• Colocation for production environment in DC 1 and IaaS
for DR environment in DC 2
• IaaS for production environment in DC 1 and IaaS for DR
environment in DC 2
• Backup / replication of data between both data centres

15. Service Providers – who to choose?
• Chose a provider with a proven track record and pedigree
• Provision of 24/7 UK support
• Who owns and manages the data centre?
• Accreditation / certifications
• What support services / SLAs are available?
• Who provides and manages the customer network?
• What auxiliary services can you subscribe to?

16. Summary
•Hybrid Hosting is a hosting service tailored to your requirements
•Budgetary and business pressures have lead to the requirement
of Hybrid hosting
•Benefits include a decrease in hosting costs through reduced
rack footprint
•Increases flexibility within your business whilst removing risk
•Key to ensure you choose the right provider

17. Thank you for your time.
Any Questions?