Hybrid cloud solutions are hot right now, with many businesses recognizing the benefits of both on-premises and cloud architecture enterprises, especially in tandem.

Approaching on-prem and cloud services, however, requires an understanding of both the parallels and differences between the two and how both demand different management and overhead. 

“On-premise, everything is a virtual machine. It’s an OS that you have to manage, the patching, the security, the policy,” said John Savill (pictured), principal cloud solution architect at Microsoft. “When you move to the cloud, you have all these other types of services … when I move to the cloud, I can shift my focus to just that business value and let the cloud vendor take care of the responsibility of keeping the things running. It enables me to shift and just focus on value, which is key.”

Savill spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent Mobile World Congress event. They discussed on-prem versus cloud architecture, hybrid solutions, Microsoft Azure and more. (*Disclosure below.)

Best of both worlds

Pricing by consumption is an attractive benefit for industries such as telco, with subscription-based payment models attracting more and more businesses into adopting the cloud and hybrid solutions.

“On-premises, we have bits of equipment,” Savill said. “We have this server, with memory and CPU, and we have different usage. We have peaks, and we have lows. We have the same bit of hardware I’m paying for all of the time.”

Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing service, offers developers the ability to take advantage of both on-prem and cloud solutions.

“What Azure has is the public cloud services. Then it has things like Azure Edge, Azure Stack Hub and HCI that let me have things on-premises in different form factors,” Savill explained. “As a developer, as an architect, I create my solution, but now I can run it in the cloud. I can run it on-premises.”

Developers can move or switch to hybrid easily if their requirements change, giving Microsoft customers the choice and leverage of different technologies and the ability to freely write and run architecture solutions, Savill concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Mobile World Congress event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Mobile World Congress. Neither TelcoDR Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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