Most enterprises cannot move 100% to public cloud: regulatory requirements, legacy applications, low latency needs. Hybrid cloud combines on-premises control with cloud scalability.
Hybrid cloud scenarios
Cloud bursting — peak loads in cloud. Cloud DR — production on-premises, failover to Azure. Dev/Test in cloud. Gradual migration — new services in cloud, old ones on-premises.
Azure Arc
Managing on-premises servers through Azure Portal: Azure Policy, Monitor, Defender for Cloud — without migrating to Azure.
How SL Global Service solves this
SGS designs hybrid environments with Azure Arc as the central platform. On-premises — Hyper-V or VMware with VPN/ExpressRoute. For edge computing — Azure Stack HCI. Unified monitoring via Azure Monitor + Grafana across all locations.
Hybrid cloud is not a temporary state but an optimal long-term enterprise architecture.
“Hybrid cloud is not a compromise but a strategy. Data with restrictions stays on-premises, the rest scales in the cloud. This is the most mature enterprise approach.”
Serhii Balashuk, CEO Softline IT, partner of SL Global Service