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Simplifying Complexity: How Hybrid Multicloud Can Streamline Business Operations

Business and technology evolve in tandem, evident as more processess move to the cloud. Cloud computing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional IT methods, delivering agility, flexibility, and reliability, along with access to vast cloud resources from third-party providers. As cloud complexity continues to rise, decision-makers must grasp how hybrid multicloud environments can optimize business operations.

Key Takeaways:

The right cloud provider simplfiies multicloud by breaking down silos between clouds and standardizing platforms.
Hybrid multicloud ensures business continuity, elasticity and simplified workload migrations, streamlining operational complexities.
Nutanix streamlines hybrid multicloud operations further with advanced cloud management tools and user-friendly self-service solutions.

How simple can the hybrid multicloud be?

Hybrid multicloud combines on-premises operations with multiple public clouds, combining hybrid cloud and multicloud under a common operating model. While modern cloud strategies can be complex, the right approach simplifies operations.

Managing multiple clouds poses challenges. Firstly, different clouds may have varying properties, especially when organizations choose to diversify by acquiring clouds from multiple separate vendors. Also, differing workloads and data-sharing practices can hinder synchronization and collaboration, not to mention the risks that may come with a lack of unified security across clouds.

The hybrid aspect can address these concerns and bring simplicity to an otherwise complicated concept. The Nutanix hybrid multicloud, for example, breaks down silos between clouds and makes it possible to run apps and data anywhere. Unification and standardization replace any complication, making it simple for any operator to manage data and applications no matter where they are in the hybrid multicloud environment.

What does the hybrid multicloud bring to business?

While the cloud itself gives businesses access to vast storage and computing resources that are not feasible to maintain on-premises, the hybrid multicloud expands on that concept with unprecedented control and freedom.

Nutanix takes this one step further with full license portability, enabling developers to deploy or redeploy Nutanix software to any of the many server-based infrastructures as they see fit. In a hybrid multicloud setting, this means that Nutanix customers can shift resources from the on-premises datacenter to the public cloud or to the edge as operating conditions change.

What is hypothetically possible in the cloud is hardly as impressive as the actual hybrid multicloud use cases that businesses today are achieving in real-time:

Business Continuity: Cost-effective disaster recovery in the cloud that addresses any existing security gaps
On-demand Elasticity: Upward and downward scalability to address seasonal or sporadic resource needs, all of which are subject to automation
Lift and Shift: Seamless migration of any workload to any cloud or across clouds

Research from Mordor Intelligence estimates that the hybrid cloud market size was about $129.43 billion in 2023, with a projected increase to $348.53 billion by 2028. These figures illustrate just how many organizations are leveraging hybrid multicloud technology to streamline business operations and the likelihood of other enterprises taking similar strides to keep pace.

Is there a way to streamline operations further?

The mere concept of hybrid multicloud stands to streamline operations in terms of speed, digital transformation, and innovation. With the right tools to capitalize on the best features of a hybrid multicloud deployment, it is possible to bring that streamlining to an even greater level of efficiency and usability.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) addresses the need to orchestrate and govern multiple clouds and varied cloud costs. As a unified solution, NCM provides intelligent operations and security compliance stretched over an entire ecosystem and visible through a single pane of glass.

Intelligent operations

Self-service

Cost and security governance

The capacity for self-service further streamlines the management capabilities of NCM by eliminating downtime and resource inefficiencies associated with traditional troubleshooting methods. NCM Self-Service enables teams to manage, deploy, and scale applications across the hybrid multicloud with automation and centralized role-based governance.

Other ways to improve a hybrid multicloud strategy with Nutanix include an emphasis on fostering effortless evolution. Nutanix software provides a single platform to use in the public cloud, enabling the seamless implementation of the hybrid cloud whenever required and allowing for persistent, low latency, and sensitive applications and data to remain on-premises.

One platform for simplifying hybrid multicloud complexity

The hybrid multicloud is a natural result for organizations that take on the complexity of operating in many clouds across many locations, but the solution to that complexity can be a simple one. With Nutanix, businesses can operate on one platform that transcends the hybrid multicloud to run apps and data anywhere.

Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) encompasses a comprehensive collection of cloud products that support all workloads and use cases across public and private clouds, hypervisors, and containers. Unify hybrid multicloud infrastructure and automate streamlined operations with one-click simplicity on NCP.

In the future, unimpeded adoption of cloud-native technology and a philosophy of digital transformation will prepare the enterprise to meet imminent demands for faster operations, more applications, and ever-more-efficient resource management.

Contact us to learn more about how the hybrid multicloud simplifies data management and the role of hyperconverged infrastructure in the shift to hybrid deployments.

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