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Yuri Colombi - Head of Solutions & Innovation, and Gérard Miceli - Innovation Consultant - EBRC Author: Sébastien Lambotte Photo credit: EBRC
HYBRID CLOUD, DEVOPS, OBJECT STORAGE:
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— ADOPTING CONTAINERIZATION TO MANAGE AND FACILITATE HYBRID DEPLOYMENTS One of the first challenges involves providing the IT department with increased agility with regard to IT resource management. The corollary to technological development is the
The IT environment must constantly evolve in order to
introduction of increasingly containerized
adapt to the business’ transformation and enable the
applications. “Contain technology
company to improve its performance. The times call for
facilitates IT management across
resource hybridization, between dedicated infrastructures
increasingly hybrid environments, using
and public clouds, and for bringing together development and operations stakeholders. In order to help its customers to better evolve, EBRC completed its service portfolio by
on-premise, private and public cloud infrastructures” explains Gérard Miceli, EBRC Innovation Consultant. Containers offer an additional level of abstraction.
implementing more flexible platforms making it possible
“They can therefore be deployed in any
to migrate between environments, thereby providing its
type of environment, thanks, in particular,
customers with increased agility.
to the Kubernetes orchestration tool that we use. Technology offers a great
“For many organisations, one of the
a more scalable IT environment
deal of flexibility in migration towards
current challenges with regard to
also offering guarantees in terms of
the public cloud, for instance.”
providing support in the context of
resilience, business continuity and — M OVING TOWARDS
the business’ digital transformation
data protection.” To this end, EBRC
lies in strengthening their ability to
has developed a digital transformation
deploy services in a more agile and
support offering to help organisations
Today, EBRC positions itself as a
secure way” says Yuri Colombi, EBRC
to more easily migrate to the hybrid
full-fledged cloud stakeholder by
Head of Solutions & Innovation. “This
cloud and implement DevOps initiatives
providing its customers with access
requires them to be able to rely on
based on robust governance.
to the environments most suited to their
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