FEATURE
Aaron White , Vice President and General Manager , Nutanix APJ
This will be a crucial step in any growth strategy as assets that have been sweating for years will become unreliable and cost far too much to maintain , while their lack of flexibility will be a serious handbrake on any growth ambitions .
Meeting the next set of business requirements will require organisations to transform their infrastructure . Other organisations who modernised their IT before the pandemic , largely pursued ‘ cloud-first ’ strategies that saw them overcommit to shifting everything to public cloud .
attempt to shift all an enterprise ’ s applications , data and workloads to a single public cloud provider , this modern cloud strategy understands that every workload has specific needs .
As such , multiple different clouds are woven together with the performance , security and cost needs of each workload dictating where it operates .
Business critical applications might run on a private cloud , customer facing and collaboration applications on a public cloud , while edge clouds serve the needs of remote offices and worksites .
Today , hybrid multi-cloud management platforms allow all these different pieces of infrastructure to run as a cohesive whole .
WITH DIGITAL NOW THE DEFAULT MODE OF OPERATION , THE DRIVING FORCES FOR GROWTH WILL BE THE ABILITY TO RAPIDLY ANALYSE DATA , LAUNCH NEW PRODUCTS AND RUN IT MORE EFFICIENTLY .
On the other hand , those organisations who have been sweating their assets are starting with a blank canvas . As our understanding of cloud has matured , so too have best-practice strategies .
Critically , they also allow applications to seamlessly shift between the various clouds without expensive refactoring every time business needs change .
Today , ‘ cloud-first ’ has been superseded with ‘ hybrid multi-cloud ’ strategies . Rather than
In other words , the best growth strategy for 2023 is ‘ don ’ t sweat it ’ anymore . www . intelligentcxo . com
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