Hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, architecture, and management — connecting on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud into a unified, optimised, and governable estate.
Most enterprises don't run a single cloud — they run a portfolio of platforms inherited through acquisitions, driven by departmental preferences, or selected for specific regulatory requirements. Managing this complexity without a coherent strategy leads to duplicated costs, inconsistent security, and operational overhead that scales faster than your business does.
IPGlobal's Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Solutions practice brings strategy, architecture, and management together — defining which workloads belong where, connecting your environments with robust, low-latency networking, and governing your entire estate as a single, coherent cloud portfolio.
Structured cloud strategy engagements that define your target-state multi-cloud architecture, workload placement principles, governance model, and commercial approach — giving your leadership team a clear, costed roadmap rather than a theoretical framework that gathers dust.
End-to-end hybrid cloud architecture design connecting on-premise infrastructure, VMware or Nutanix private cloud, and public cloud platforms into a coherent estate — with consistent identity, networking, security, and management controls spanning all environments.
Data-driven workload assessment scoring each application against cost, performance, compliance, and cloud-native service requirements — producing a placement recommendation that minimises total cost of ownership while meeting your business and regulatory constraints.
Private dedicated connectivity between your data centres and cloud platforms using AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Interconnect — procured and delivered via network providers including Megaport, Equinix, and Colt for predictable, low-latency performance.
Unified FinOps practice spanning all your cloud providers — providing consolidated cost visibility, cross-cloud tagging standards, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan optimisation, waste elimination, and monthly FinOps reporting that gives your finance team the breakdown they need by business unit and environment.
Commercial and contractual management of your cloud vendor relationships — including spend commitment optimisation, enterprise discount programme negotiations, SLA management, and governance frameworks that enforce consistent policies across all cloud providers without vendor-specific complexity.
Full inventory of your existing cloud accounts, on-premise infrastructure, costs, and workloads — establishing the baseline for all subsequent decisions.
Structured workshop with your leadership and technical teams to define cloud principles, governance model, placement criteria, and a prioritised transformation roadmap.
Target-state hybrid / multi-cloud architecture designed — networking, identity, security, management, and governance patterns agreed and documented.
Workloads migrated and integrated according to the placement plan — with interconnect provisioned, governance controls deployed, and cost management activated.
Continuous optimisation of workload placement, cost, governance, and vendor relationships — with regular strategic reviews as your business requirements evolve.
We have no preferred cloud vendor and no partner incentive to recommend one platform over another. Our recommendations are driven entirely by your requirements — cost, performance, compliance, and technical fit — giving you unbiased strategic advice you can rely on.
Certified engineers across AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix — covering the full range of public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms that make up a real enterprise estate, not just the hyperscalers featured in most consultants' slide decks.
Many cloud consultancies focus on pure public cloud — but most enterprise transformations start with a hybrid phase. IPGlobal has deep expertise in the on-premise to cloud connectivity, identity bridging, and workload migration patterns that make hybrid architectures work in practice.
Multi-cloud environments without unified FinOps governance routinely overspend by 30–50%. IPGlobal's cross-cloud cost management practice provides consolidated visibility and active optimisation across every provider in your estate — typically delivering significant savings within 90 days.
Cross-cloud governance frameworks using Terraform, HashiCorp Sentinel, and cloud-native policy services ensure consistent security controls, tagging standards, and compliance posture across all your cloud providers — without requiring your team to learn each provider's governance tools separately.
With engineers and project managers across 190+ countries, IPGlobal can design and deliver hybrid connectivity and cloud integrations that span multiple geographic regions — including data residency-sensitive environments in APAC, EMEA, and the Americas simultaneously.
Hybrid cloud is an IT architecture that combines on-premise infrastructure (or private cloud) with one or more public cloud platforms — connected by secure, high-bandwidth network links. Unlike traditional IT where all workloads sit in your own data centre, hybrid cloud allows you to keep sensitive or latency-critical workloads on-premise while bursting less sensitive workloads to the public cloud for elasticity and cost efficiency. IPGlobal designs hybrid environments that make this boundary transparent to your applications and users.
Hybrid cloud refers to the combination of on-premise or private cloud infrastructure with public cloud. Multi-cloud refers specifically to the use of more than one public cloud provider simultaneously — for example, running workloads across both AWS and Azure. Many enterprises use both simultaneously: a hybrid multi-cloud model where on-premise, AWS, and Azure all form part of the same unified estate. IPGlobal has expertise across all these architectural patterns and can design the right combination for your business.
Workload placement is a structured decision based on multiple factors: regulatory data residency requirements, latency sensitivity, cost profile, cloud-native service dependencies, and existing licensing agreements. IPGlobal conducts a workload assessment during the strategy phase — scoring each application against these dimensions to produce a placement recommendation that optimises for cost, performance, compliance, and operational simplicity. We avoid arbitrary placement decisions that create unnecessary complexity.
Cloud interconnect is the private, dedicated network connectivity between your on-premise environment and public cloud platforms — using services like AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Interconnect, delivered via providers like Megaport, Equinix, and Colt. Public internet connections to cloud are unpredictable in latency and bandwidth — for enterprise workloads, dedicated interconnect delivers consistent performance, better security, and often lower egress costs. IPGlobal designs and procures interconnect solutions that match your bandwidth and redundancy requirements.
Multi-cloud cost management requires a unified FinOps practice that spans all your cloud providers. IPGlobal uses tools like CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, and native provider cost management services to provide a single consolidated view of cloud spend. We implement tagging standards across all clouds, identify cross-cloud cost optimisation opportunities, manage Reserved Instance and Savings Plan portfolios, and deliver monthly FinOps reports that show exactly where your cloud budget is going — across every provider.
Vendor lock-in risk is real but manageable with deliberate architectural choices. IPGlobal designs multi-cloud architectures using abstraction layers — Kubernetes for container orchestration, Terraform for infrastructure as code, and cloud-agnostic storage and messaging patterns — that reduce the cost of switching or rebalancing workloads between providers. We also advise on contractual protections and data portability requirements as part of every vendor management engagement. The goal is always to maintain commercial leverage with your cloud providers without sacrificing the cloud-native services that deliver genuine value.
Talk to an IPGlobal multi-cloud specialist today. We'll audit your current cloud landscape and provide a tailored strategy recommendation within 24 hours.
