Five Ways to Streamline Cloud Operations

An influx of 750 million new applications by 2025 is putting extreme pressure on IT organizations. Many are struggling to manage multiple clouds and on-premises environments. Here are five best practices to help you succeed.

Get to the cloud faster

Cloud adoption and unification is slowed by lengthy app refactoring, resulting in unused cloud credits and missed datacenter evacuation deadlines.

Best Practice 1: Build a foundation for cloud success

Look for solutions that let you run your current application portfolio anywhere with minimal changes. Deliver better support for VMs and containers by virtualizing Kubernetes and choosing partners that understand both environments.

65%

of organizations have container apps in production.**

Best Practice 2: Take control of your data

Providing the same data services across environments enables teams to avoid operational challenges and unexpected performance gaps while simplifying data protection and facilitating app and data mobility.

47%

say data visibility is a key cloud challenge.* 

Increase cloud efficiency

Low resource utilization, unforeseen expenses and spiraling cloud bills are today’s reality.

Best Practice 3: Adopt FinOps

FinOps is essential to gain control over costs by providing visibility across environments, identifying unused or underutilized resources, and optimizing reserved-instance use.

FinOps

is an evolving cloud financial managment discipline that delivers greater business value. 

Simplify operations

Siloed cloud operations require disparate skills and tools, complicating management, wasting time and reducing security.

Best Practice 4: Automate your operations

Look for tools that can automate Day 1 and Day 2 operations across all the environments where you operate.

4 out of 5

IT leaders think workflow automation is crucial.* 

Best Practice 5: Embrace AIOps

AIOps identifies correlations and anomalies in mountains of log data so that minor problems never become full-scale disasters. Look for AIOps solutions that include predictive analytics, anomaly detection and deep insights into your operations with the ability to automate corrective actions.

AIOps

combines telemetry data and machine learning to enhance IT ops. 

The Nutanix Difference

With a unified, efficient and simple-to-use platform that works across clouds, datacenters and edge, Nutanix breaks down the barriers that keep you from achieving your cloud goals.

Nutanix helps reduce total operation costs by 43% and boost IT management efficiency by 53% with a unified cloud operating model. This gives businesses the freedom to manage their hybrid multicloud infrastructure more efficiently**.

To learn more about achieving your cloud goals, read Deploying an Intelligent Cloud: Seven Strategies for Success.

*Sixth Annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index report

**IDC InfoBrief: The State of Containerization Infrastructure

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