A managed service provider (MSP) for hybrid cloud acts as an expert service layer that unifies management, security, and optimization across all your environments. Instead of your team managing separate on-premises, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud systems with different tools, the MSP provides a single operational framework, expert team, and point of accountability.
A hybrid-cloud strategy is a modern necessity. The idea that every application can move to a single public cloud is an outdated position. Instead, you have legacy systems with deep interdependencies, sensitive data that must stay on-premises for compliance, and new cloud-native apps.
In many instances, you may have the right platforms, but they don't talk to each other. This creates friction, risk, and runaway costs.
Operational silos: Your on-premises VMware team and your public cloud team often use different monitoring tools, different processes, and have different priorities. This makes it impossible to get a single view of system health.
Inconsistent security and compliance: A security policy applied to your on-premises datacenter is difficult to enforce consistently in the cloud. This creates dangerous compliance gaps for regulations like HIPAA, PCI, or GDPR.
Performance and data gravity: Latency-sensitive applications, like real-time trading systems, often can't tolerate the network hops to a public cloud. Furthermore, moving massive datasets between on-prem and cloud environments can create performance bottlenecks and high egress fees.
Unpredictable costs: It's hard to get a single view of your total IT spend when bills come from multiple cloud vendors and you still have on-premises capital expenditures (capex). Optimizing for one (e.g., cloud) can unexpectedly increase costs for the other.
Specialized skills gaps: Your internal team may be world-class in managing on-premises Oracle databases, but they may not have deep, 24/7 expertise in cloud-native database services, Kubernetes, or multi-cloud networking (and vice versa).
An MSP acts as the glue layer that integrates your disparate environments into a single, manageable ecosystem. We provide the platform, processes, and people to bridge these gaps.
Instead of you juggling multiple monitoring dashboards, MSPs like Pythian provide 24/7/365 monitoring for your entire estate through a unified platform. We can see the health of your legacy on-premises server and your new cloud-native application in one place, allowing us to spot and resolve issues before they cause downtime.
We apply unified security policies, access controls, and threat detection across all your environments. An MSP can manage identity and access (IAM) centrally and conduct comprehensive audits that cover both your on-premises and cloud assets, ensuring you can prove compliance to regulators.
We go beyond just managing your cloud spend. An MSP provides hybrid FinOps, analyzing your entire IT footprint to identify what should (or shouldn't) be in the cloud. We optimize both your operational cloud spend (opex) and your on-premises hardware lifecycle (capex) to give you a predictable, optimized financial model.
An MSP provides a "deep bench" of certified experts across all major technologies—from legacy systems to the newest cloud services. This gives you on-demand access to specialists you couldn't hire or train fast enough, ensuring every part of your environment is managed by an expert.
Strategic workload placement: MSPs like Pythian help you analyze performance, security, cost, and compliance requirements to make data-driven decisions about where each workload should live—on-premises, in a private cloud, or on a specific public cloud.
Complex migration and modernization: We plan and execute the migration of your most critical on-premises databases (like Oracle or SQL Server) to the right cloud platform with minimal downtime, ensuring they are optimized for performance and cost from day one.
Cross-platform performance tuning: Our experts don't just tune a single database; we optimize the performance of the entire system, from the on-premises application server to the cloud database it calls.
Legacy system support and integration: MSPs provide expert management for the legacy systems you aren't ready to migrate, ensuring they remain stable and secure. We also build the modern data pipelines (streaming, ETL) to connect them to your cloud apps, unlocking the value of your legacy data.
We handle the 24/7 operations that keep the lights on, freeing your best people from firefighting or busy work. This allows them to focus on building new products, serving your customers, and driving business value.
You gain a single, accountable partner responsible for keeping your entire hybrid environment secure and compliant. This proactive management minimizes the risk of breaches, fines, and costly downtime.
By actively managing your entire hybrid infrastructure, we move your IT spend from an unpredictable, reactive cost center to a predictable, optimized financial model that aligns with your business goals.
A hybrid-cloud strategy is essential, but its complexity can halt innovation. An MSP gives you the single expert partner you need to manage the complexity, control costs, and free your team to focus on what's next.
Ready to unify your hybrid-cloud operations? Learn more about Pythian's database managed services.