The term network monitoring is certainly familiar to IT circles. There are many benefits that you can get when your company uses network monitoring tools as you can read in this article. In another article, we also explained that there are 2 network monitoring based on their placement, namely on cloud monitoring and on-premise monitoring. Both certainly have their own advantages and disadvantages. So what if you want to implement on-cloud monitoring but the device you have does not support the cloud? The solution is hybrid IT.

Hybrid IT is a technique where a company uses in-house or cloud-based services to complete its entire collection of IT resources. More simply, the hybrid IT model is moving some applications and workloads to the cloud and while monitoring devices on-premise. For more details about hybrid IT, read the following explanation below.

What are the Benefits?

With hybrid IT that provides the best in both on-cloud and on-premise monitoring, you can get the following benefits from cloud computing:

a. More efficient. With hybrid IT, it will be more efficient to arrange more computing resources as needed.

b. Increased security

c. More cost-effective. You don’t need to spend additional costs to buy additional hardware or pay for labor such as technicians. With this, you will save even more costs.

d. Fast bandwidth. You don’t need to worry about slow bandwidth because with hybrid IT, bandwidth is faster and easier to access cloud resources or services.

From a strategic perspective, hybrid IT can help IT decision makers align specific technology platforms with specific applications and workloads.

Hybrid IT Challenges

There are several challenges that you must face when dealing with hybrid IT such as the following:

a. Managing and securing a mix of IT infrastructure can be expensive and complicated

b. Disconnected IT infrastructures cause business processes to break down, delays, and service disruptions.

c. Older technologies can be difficult to measure

References:

https://www.technopedia.com/definition/26637/hybrid-it

https://helpsystems.com/blog/network-monitoring-tips-hybrid-it-environments

https://www.sungardas.com/en/about/resources/articles/what-is-bybrid-it/