UNIT4, the ERP vendor which owns Agresso and CODA, is the latest in a number of software organisations promoting a hybrid approach to cloud computing. UNIT4 announced earlier this week the formation of a corporate Hybrid Computing division dedicated to delivering services that mix on-premise, private and shared cloud services.
“We have recognised for some time that most clients, especially medium and large organisations, want to take a hybrid approach to cloud computing,” said Ton Dobbe, VP Product Management, UNIT4. “They want some specific applications or functions to be delivered via a hosted or cloud service to give them flexibility in areas that may have unpredictable demand, for example, or need particularly high availability and uptime.”
“Organisations inevitably have specific areas that make more sense to keep in house. Companies should exploit technology that gets the most out of existing core IT infrastructures and enables them to adapt quickly to external drivers, which a hybrid approach readily facilitates,” added Dobbe.
In order to reassure customer doubts about security of cloud solutions UNIT4 says it has recently achieved the highest security certification from the British Standards Institute: ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is an international best practice standard for information security and, says UNIT4, conforms that Hybrid Computing meets the security requirements of the Code of Practice for Security Management. The standard specifies requirements for the identification, execution, control and improvement of documented Information Security Management Systems covering business risks.
