Does Wavesteam support on-premises, private-cloud, public-cloud, and hybrid deployment?
Yes. Wavesteam supports customer-site private deployment, dedicated environments, public cloud, and hybrid designs. Use on-premises deployment when data must remain inside a boundary or the system must work offline; public cloud when external access, elasticity, and managed services dominate; and hybrid when equipment or core data stays inside while outside users still need service. Decide the deployment during architecture and contracting, not after development.
The market often uses “private” and “on-premises” interchangeably. Here, on-premises means the customer's data centre or internal network. Dedicated cloud and isolated public-cloud resources may offer stronger separation but require their data and control boundaries to be checked individually. Hybrid is not half the servers in each location; it is an explicit design for which identity, data, and services cross the boundary.
Four deployment forms
| Form | Location | Advantage | Main cost | Appropriate condition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer site / offline private | Customer servers and network | Greatest direct data and network control; offline operation | Hardware, capacity, upgrade, backup, and operations | Data locality, factory, or restricted network |
| Dedicated cloud / managed private | Dedicated provider environment | Balances isolation and managed operation | Provider dependency; boundary requires contract evidence | Existing enterprise private-cloud programme |
| Public cloud | Shared cloud infrastructure in the client's account | Elasticity, ecosystem, and efficient operations | External processing, continuing fees, platform dependency | Internet products and multi-region access |
| Hybrid | Core inside, external services in cloud, controlled connection | Combines site operation and public service | Complex network, identity, synchronization, and failures | IoT, factory, headquarters and branch systems |
How Wavesteam forms the recommendation
The client supplies business facts: data and site restrictions, work that must continue offline, user distribution, current infrastructure and operating capability, budget, and impact of interruption. Wavesteam maps data flows, surveys the network, and tests representative work to derive peak load, recovery targets, availability, and capacity. We compare three-year hardware, cloud, staff, connection, and upgrade costs and deliver a recommended form plus unsuitable conditions. The client is not asked to invent the architecture first.
Public cloud does not mean uncontrolled data, and a private room is not inherently secure. Both need identity, least privilege, patches, backups, monitoring, and incident response. On-premises designs particularly need an accountable owner for operating systems, databases, containers, certificates, and dependencies, plus a secure support route.
Private deployment deliverables
Provide versioned installers or images, dependencies and licences, hardware and OS requirements, configuration inventory, deployment automation, health checks, upgrade and rollback, monitoring, recovery, and an incident guide. An offline network also needs an approved route for importing images, patches, and licence files. Client staff should perform an installation or upgrade and a restore during handover.
Wavesteam tests representative client workflows on candidate hardware rather than sizing from CPU, memory, or GPU labels alone. The report records workload, volume, P95 latency, throughput, storage growth, and redundancy. AI also requires task quality, context length, and memory use. Capacity includes failure and upgrade headroom, with the recommendation based on business interruption, SLA, and budget.
Hybrid boundaries
Device access, sensitive master data, and deterministic control often remain inside; portals, mobile entry, messaging, and non-sensitive analytics may run in cloud. VPN, private connection, or a controlled gateway links them. Both directions use identity, least privilege, encryption, replay protection, and audit. The design states what continues during an outage, cache duration, resynchronization, and conflict ownership.
A public frontend must not directly control an internal device. Commands pass authorization, policy, queueing, and device identity and retain status and audit. Cloud failure cannot disable local safety controls. If this complexity has no business benefit, select one environment.
Wavesteam can survey, architect, benchmark, and compare TCO, then deliver capacity, responsibilities, migration, and rollback. Our public factory management and BMS battery management cases show related project directions, not proof for a new environment. Production cloud and critical accounts should normally belong to the client; operations, SLA, hardware, and resilience stay explicit in the contract.
References
- NIST SP 800-145 defines public, private, community, and hybrid cloud deployment models.
- NIST Zero Trust Architecture SP 800-207 supports continuous identity and access decisions across network locations.
- The Wavesteam Transparent Delivery Standard describes account, deployment-asset, and handover boundaries.
Data flows, a network survey, workload tests, a responsibility matrix, and three-year cost should jointly support the deployment decision.