The challenge
DevOps businesses work with complex cloud environments and have high expectations for the performance and reliability of their own infrastructure. As the business grows, increasing workloads and resource requirements can place pressure on existing hosting platforms.
If your infrastructure cannot support these requirements, performance can begin to suffer. Even where you have significant technical expertise internally, managing the underlying hosting infrastructure can also take time and resources away from your core DevOps work.
Our approach
Our consultants’ first priority when working with a DevOps business is understanding your technical and operational requirements. We review your existing infrastructure, performance requirements and expected growth to understand the resources your workloads need now and how these may change over time.
Following this consultation, our engineers design a bespoke private cloud platform tailored to your requirements. Dedicated resources provide greater control over the compute, storage and networking available to your workloads, with the architecture configured around your specific performance requirements.
As your requirements change, resources can be scaled to accommodate growth without requiring a complete infrastructure redesign. This allows your hosting environment to develop alongside the business while maintaining the performance required by your workloads.
For DevOps teams with significant cloud expertise internally, a managed approach also provides a clear division of responsibility. Your team can retain control over its applications and development processes, while our engineers manage and monitor the underlying hosting infrastructure.
Our Managed Private Cloud is monitored and managed 24/7/365 by our engineering team. Through proactive monitoring and ongoing optimisation, we identify potential infrastructure issues and manage resource usage to help maintain platform performance and availability.
The outcome
A high-performance managed private cloud provides DevOps businesses with dedicated infrastructure designed around their specific resource and performance requirements.
As the business grows, resources can be adapted around changing requirements, providing a scalable foundation without requiring internal teams to manage the underlying hosting platform themselves.
With 24/7/365 monitoring, management and direct access to technical engineers, DevOps teams can combine their own cloud and application expertise with specialist support for the infrastructure underneath them.
Why might a DevOps business choose managed private cloud?
Having cloud expertise internally does not necessarily mean every layer of your infrastructure needs to be managed in-house. A managed private cloud can provide dedicated resources and specialist infrastructure management while allowing your DevOps team to focus on the applications, services and environments it is responsible for.
A managed private cloud may be appropriate if:
- Your existing hosting infrastructure is struggling to keep up with business growth.
- You have workloads with specific or increasing performance requirements.
- You need infrastructure that can scale as your resource requirements change.
- You want dedicated compute, storage and networking resources designed around your workloads.
- Your internal technical team would benefit from reducing responsibility for managing the underlying hosting infrastructure.
- You need access to technical infrastructure support 24/7/365.
- Your current hosting provider cannot meet your performance, scalability or service requirements.
Customer case study
This approach was used when supporting Broadlight, a Brighton-based DevOps and cloud consultancy working with organisations to modernise their operations through cloud computing and DevOps expertise.
As one of the UK’s specialist DevOps consultancies, Broadlight experienced rapid growth and expanded its teams across the UK and Europe. Its website was an important part of its public presence, but its existing hosting infrastructure was struggling to keep pace as the business grew.
Broadlight needed to maintain website performance as it added more content, while ensuring its hosting could scale alongside its requirements. After discussing its future plans with its existing provider, the team found that the provider could not deliver the infrastructure and service levels it needed.
Broadlight migrated its website to a managed private cloud with Hyve, providing the scalability and high-performance infrastructure required to support its growing digital presence.
The relationship also developed beyond Broadlight’s own hosting requirements. As a DevOps and cloud consultancy working with public cloud platforms and advising customers on their infrastructure, Broadlight needed confidence in any provider it recommended. Following its experience working with Hyve, Broadlight has been able to recommend our private cloud and hybrid cloud services to its own customers.
Jordan Carter, Solutions Awareness Manager at Broadlight, explained:
“Hyve has fantastic experience and the high-performance infrastructure our customers are increasingly looking for.”
Broadlight also highlighted the ability to use Hyve as a private cloud provider or as part of a hybrid environment alongside public cloud, giving its customers additional infrastructure options according to their requirements.