Is Hybrid Cloud in Energy Sector Calling for a Revolutionary Change?

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Is Hybrid Cloud in Energy Sector Calling for a Revolutionary Change?

Kaneshwari Patil

@Kaneshwari Patil

August 23, 2022

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Energy is not only changing our lives but also transforming its own!

Originally, solar energy and wind power were among the primary sources of energy, and now we’re turning to them again, albeit with more advanced technologies. The energy industry has progressed significantly from the 1750s, when coal-powered the industrial revolution, to the 2050s, when we strive for net-zero emissions through technological advances. The energy industry is investing in new technologies and digital solutions as part of its sustainability goals, including employing renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydro, tidal, and geothermal to minimize energy demand and carbon emissions.

With the introduction of renewable energy, distributed grids, and increased customer experience demands, the energy industry is undergoing major changes to move towards green energy. The adoption of cloud technology will hasten this shift, significantly impacting how the energy industry handles asset management, staff health and safety, and field labor management.

So the next question is, what type of cloud computing strategy would be ideal for the energy sector? The scalability and flexibility of a public cloud or the privacy and security of a private cloud?!

Why not combine the best of both worlds with Hybrid Cloud?

The hybrid cloud shares application and data between on-premises, private, and public clouds.

Hybrid clouds allow enterprises to rapidly scale up or down their computing capacity whenever their computing needs exceed the capabilities of on-premises data centers. It also removes the need for excess new servers to be purchased, installed, and maintained.

Data analysis is the first step in adopting hybrid clouds.

Technological advancements and automation in the energy industry produce a vast amount of unstructured data every second. Unlike Industry 3.0, which used computers to improve existing processes, Industry 4.0 aims to reimagine every process around data. Using the right data at the right time and at the right location is the only way to make use of the tremendous amount of data collected every day.

Understanding this unstructured data is the first step in implementing a hybrid cloud.

Here are the top three actions to take while implementing a hybrid cloud:

Assessment of the data that you have – The energy industry is awash in unstructured data, so it’s important to know what you have. By using metadata or context analysis, it is possible to dig deeper into enterprise data and gain maximum intelligence. For e.g. determining the age of data, file ownership, time of creation, last accessed, file type, size, etc. Content analysis determines which data is sensitive or redundant, trivial, obsolete, hot or cold.
Adopt the right location for the right data – Compliance, regulatory, and security needs can influence where data and workloads are stored. IT security teams are able to standardize their redundant cloud storage activities with a hybrid environment, which is critical for disaster recovery planning and insurance. In a hybrid cloud, data can, for instance, remain accessible even when an entire data center is down since information is shared across multiple data centers and servers. Additionally, infrastructure is still accessible through the Internet during a disaster.
Optimize your data storage – Companies who desire more security and control over their data but need a cost-effective way to expand their operations to meet demand spikes can benefit from a hybrid cloud. Identifying business-critical and non-business-critical data is the first step. This can be accomplished using the above steps. The hybrid cloud option allows businesses to keep their core, business-critical, and sensitive data on-premises while offloading less sensitive data and apps to the public cloud.

Read about how Data Dynamics assisted one of the world’s seven international energy “supermajors,” a Fortune 50 company, in adopting a hybrid cloud by migrating 600 TB of data in 20 days and saving millions of dollars by closing data centers.

5 ways the hybrid cloud is infiltrating the energy industry:

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