Cloud Architecture

 Protect clouds from hackers and unauthorized users by safeguarding all layers within a cloud infrastructure with data encryption, patch management and rigid policies. Consider zero-trust security models for the highest levels of security across the hybrid, multi-cloud enterprise. 

Automate recovery processes to avoid costly downtime and ensure a speedy recovery from service disruptions. Monitoring capacity and using a redundant network can also ensure a highly available architecture.

Leverage and manage the right compute resources by continuously monitoring business demands and technology needs. 

The architecture will take advantage of cloud computing ability to scale up or down as demand fluctuates.

The complexity, especially of hybrid environments, makes it difficult for IT to have transparency and visibility of cloud performance. Addressing this at design stage can ensure that post-implementation the internal IT resources are freed to focus less on operational tasks allowing more time for transformational work.

Avoiding single points of failure is critical to the design. A system is highly available when it can withstand the failure of an individual component or multiple components. Detection and reaction to failure should both be automated as much as possible. 

Above all other components this is likely to be at the centre of design deliberations. Access to data is a core attraction of cloud computing. Where data will be stored, how it will be updated and accessed, will be key deliberations. 

Before beginning to architect a cloud solution, it is first necessary to assess the organisation’s current business requirements and anticipated future needs. MobileCorp believes the more detailed this assessment is, the more likely the eventual outcome will deliver the solution envisaged.

Understanding the state of the current network – what is working well and what is not – is critical to decision-making around cloud modelling, and to designing an integrated cloud network environment. MobileCorp will undertake a full network assessment in partnership with the organisation.

Developing an understanding of which cloud model best meets the business need – public, private, hybrid – will inform the network design. MobileCorp will weigh cost and use-case requirements. Decision-making and design will also be influenced by the type of applications and workloads involved. Workloads have different trust requirements – with ‘trust’ also covering speed, performance, and security. For one workload, the economics might suggest staying with a legacy architecture, while for another, both economics and trust might favour either public or private cloud.

MobileCorp will deliver a best practice network design solution that meets the identified business needs and incorporates the following components:

• Flexibility/Scalability
• Automation
• Integration
• Data Management
• Failover & Redundancy
• Security
• Cost Optimisation
• Management Simplicity and Visibility
  

It is worth remembering that cloud design is not a one-off exercise.

The only constant with network design is change.

One of the core characteristics of a cloud-native system is that it’s always evolving, and that’s equally true of the architecture.

MobileCorp does not design and ditch. We know there will be a requirement for constant refinement and improvement of the architecture of the system as the needs of the organisation change, the landscape of IT systems change, and the capabilities of cloud providers change. 

We partner with our customers for the long term.

MobileCorp will deliver a Cloud Solution document which captures the business objectives, current status, inputs and methodology, design recommendations and design diagrams.