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Simplifying Complexity: Strategies for Taming Cloud Challenges

Digital transformation is driving unprecedented innovations in the IT industry, reshaping the way people work and how organizations interact with their customers. However, alongside these transformations come complexities that often challenge IT teams. The answer lies in digital transformation and the strategies it enables to overcome complexity in an ecosystem that lives and dies by digitization.

Key Takeaways:

Multicloud computing and edge technology are breeding grounds for complexity, but hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) can provide a foundation for simplicity.
Nutanix makes it easy to find the simple way forward, starting with an easy-to-understand product portfolio containing solutions that provide consistent cloud operating models.
Remove even more complex cloud-based burdens from your organization with pay-as-you-go services that offload the most challenging aspects of cloud management to your service provider.

Overcoming complexity in the cloud

The multicloud approach is popular due to its ability to diversify cloud capabilities while minimizing the risk of vendor lock-in. Yet, working in a multicloud environment means your teams may have to learn how to use different tools for each cloud and solve data-sharing problems. There is a clear need for a solution that simplifies overcoming this complexity.

However, innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning exacerbate issues of complexity. Companies striving to be on the cutting edge of technology risk introducing new complications by deploying workloads to more locations and storing ever-greater amounts of data for training large language models.

Untangling multicloud complexity starts with simplifying multicloud infrastructure. Hybrid multicloud, in particular, holds the potential to break down the barriers that make a multiple-cloud deployment so complex.

With hyperconverged infrastructure that extends from your on-premises datacenter to the public cloud, and from one public cloud to many others, an environment with multiple clouds becomes a true multicloud ecosystem that is agile, scalable, and manageable from a single control plane. The question remains, then, as to which cloud platform is capable of overcoming complexity with a true hybrid multicloud experience and silo-free human-computer interaction.

Finding simplicity with Nutanix

Nutanix provides a simplified product portfolio with an easy-to-consume set of solutions. The goal is to enable you to accelerate innovation and meet rapidly changing business needs by overcoming the complexity of designing a multicloud strategy from scratch while still providing you with customized solutions that specifically apply to your IT circumstances.

When you choose Nutanix, you get a consistent cloud operating model that is simple to use without compromising reliability or utility. Consistent tooling and clear visibility into resource usage at a glance are essential for tackling the stressful cloud challenges of today.

All of this is possible because Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) comprises hybrid cloud infrastructure, multicloud management, unified storage, database services, and desktop services all in one place. Nutanix enables accelerated digital transformation alongside a lower TCO as a unified platform with workload portability.

Overcoming complexity with Nutanix begins with simply choosing the solution package that aligns with your current cloud goals and strategies:

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI): The complete software solution that includes virtual computing, storage, and networking for virtual machines and containers.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM): The solution for intelligent operations, including monitoring, insights, and automated remediation.
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS): A single point of management for all storage resources that enables non-storage experts to handle most day-to-day storage and data management tasks.
Nutanix Database Service (NDB): A simple database management solution extending across hybrid multicloud environments for various database engines.
Nutanix End User Computing Solutions (EUC): A per-user licensing option for NCI that simplifies capacity planning by matching the infrastructure cost model to that of the end-user computing platform.

Reducing your burdens through “as-a-Service” solutions

Taking advantage of cloud service models provided by your platform provider, particularly database-as-a-service solutions, can help overcome complexity by offloading the burden of administrative tasks and maintenance associated with database management to your service provider. Nutanix Database Service, for example, enables automation for important but tedious database administrative tasks without sacrificing control or flexibility.

Similarly, Nutanix Disaster Recovery ensures that you do not have to worry about complexity in catastrophic situations when you already have more than enough to worry about. This disaster recovery-as-a-service is simple to deploy, easy to manage, and adaptable to ever-changing RPO and RTO needs.

In addition to DBaaS and DRaas, Nutanix Professional Services comprises various outcome-based services that fast-track your journey toward unlocking the full value of your Nutanix investment. With expert consultants available to help you tame those unfamiliar cloud challenges, FinOps-as-a-service solution to help you maximize cost governance initiatives, and so much more, professional services provide the most time-effective route to overcoming complexity.

Findings from Precedence Research show that the global cloud services market size held a value of USD 454.20 billion in 2022. With projected growth to USD 2192.54 billion by 2032, it is clear that the cloud services market will continue to provide a popular and overwhelmingly simple solution for reducing IT burdens and overall complexity for organizations everywhere.

Nutanix makes overcoming complexity simple

Complexity in the cloud ultimately stems from the siloed nature of disparate clouds, the need for specialized expertise to utilize those clouds to the fullest, and the difficulty of searching for the right solution for your specific concerns. Everything can fall perfectly in place when a simple answer presents itself, and Nutanix is the platform that provides that answer.

NCP even simplifies decision-making when you set out to transform your cloud operations. Just choose the solutions package that addresses your areas of concern. Implement service-based solutions to simplify workflows within your IT teams without sacrificing flexibility or control.

Whether you are in the early stages of digital transformation or taking the next practical steps toward overcoming complexity, Nutanix can meet you where you are. Contact us today or access the support portal to take the next steps.

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