The positive influence private and public clouds are having on data centre teams worldwide cannot be overstated. Indeed, private and public cloud solutions have helped drive new levels of cost savings and operational agility that were not possible with traditional data centre infrastructure.
Rather than selecting one cloud solution, however, organizations are increasingly leveraging a combination of cloud deployment models. In doing so, these organizations expect to seamlessly leverage a mix of cloud models that may be on-premises, hosted, private, or public clouds with the freedom to dynamically select the best model for each use case and workload. Software-defined, scale-out hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has become a key component of these hybrid clouds environments.
Today’s best HCI solutions offer a robust platform that can be used to implement a private cloud within the data centre while also supporting intelligent software to seamlessly integrate public cloud application platforms. Such HCI solutions provide the benefits of introducing public cloud features to on-premises infrastructure while also providing a common management platform for a hybrid cloud environment.
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud is a significant offering in the broader hyper-converged infrastructure market. IDC previously conducted studies on the value of the Nutanix platform in 2015 and 2017 and carried out new research with organizations running various business applications on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud to revalidate the platform’s benefits. Nutanix customers, which had an average employee base of over 30,000, confirmed the platform’s continued strong value proposition through much-improved IT agility and performance to support employees and business operations and limit operational risk and driving lower infrastructure costs and more efficient IT teams.