Taming cloud chaos: The promise of simplifying cloud for enterprise IT

The CIO’s job has never been simple, but modern IT challenges are becoming more and more complex and unwieldy by the day. Exponential data growth has confounded IT’s ability to affordably and securely manage it all. At the same time, employees, partners, customers, and other stakeholders need constant access to IT resources from many devices and locations, most of which are outside the firewall. And finally, the race to support and deploy generative AI can require expensive, difficult-to-source, and resource-intensive infrastructure.

The problem is clear: Enterprise IT teams desperately need a solution to manage all these environments — data centers, edge, and public clouds — and gain the necessary agility to meet these mighty challenges.

The answer…less so. Of course, a hybrid multicloud platform that brings the same operating approach and data services for apps wherever they are running can address this complexity, but only if implemented properly — otherwise, the result is cloud chaos.

When evaluating and implementing a cloud platform, make sure to consider the following:

• Refactoring and replatforming: Refactoring and replatforming cost a ton of time and money. If the platform requires this step before migrating workloads to the cloud, the enterprise won’t see much return on investment. Nor will it achieve the necessary agility to keep up with the rapidly increasing pace of data creation and technology advancements.
• Complexity that creates new silos: When working with the public cloud, it’s all too easy to replicate the data silo problem that IT has battled for decades on-premises, especially if the organization is operating multiple cloud environments. Modern app development requires complex application dependency mapping and the constant integration of new tools. If the cloud environment is fragmented and siloed, software development and other IT development efforts can slow to a crawl.
• No dynamic scaling: Rather than consume resources at the same rate over time, plenty of workloads experience massive spikes. E-commerce apps and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) users, for example, will require more resources around the holidays to ensure a high-quality customer experience. Without the ability to dynamically scale workloads according to the current need, organizations are forced to pay for their maximum potential load year-round. That can add up to a lot of wasted money.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform provides simplified enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure and management, so workloads can run anywhere. Built on top of Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software, the platform provides architectural and management consistency across clouds, edge, and on-premises environments.

There’s no need to refactor applications, so migration is seamless and fast. Plus, IT can build, expand, or shrink the cloud footprint in just hours. Virtual machines, containers, data storage: All of it can be managed via a single platform, so administrators don’t need to be retrained. And since scaling can be automated, resources become available to workloads as needed.

The end result? CIOs can optimize the cloud to its fullest, with the flexibility to run workloads wherever they’re needed — in data centers, at the edge, or in the public cloud of their choice — to meet the challenge of modern IT management.

Learn more about the Nutanix Cloud Platform.