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Enterprise Cloud For Dummies, Nutanix Special Edition
business intelligence and analytics suites. These applications
often require consistently high levels of performance and,
particularly for applications that use a legacy client/server
model, the network connectivity between the server and the
connecting clients must be very low latency and very high
bandwidth.
With public cloud providers, you pay far more, for example,
for all‐flash storage in a public cloud environment than for
spinning disk. For any applications that require consistently
high levels of CPU, you pay monthly for that peak usage. On
the network front, you pay far more for a very high bandwidth, low latency connection to the public cloud provider
than you would pay to implement such a network in your own
environment.
Deciding: Owning versus
renting infrastructure
Consider this scenario: Pretend for a minute that each of your
travels for work and for pleasure equates to an enterprise
workload use case. So, that trip you took to the Caribbean
might represent a VDI deployment. The business trip you took
to London might stand for a CRM deployment.
As you undertake each of these journeys, you need transportation, which is analogous to infrastructure. Now, as you
arrive at the destination airport for each of these trips, do you
make your way to an auto dealership and buy a brand new car
to use while you’re there?
Of course not! Economically, that would be ludicrous and
wasteful. You’d also catch the attention of your finance
department, who would laugh at your audacity as security
escorts you out of the building.
Instead, when you’re at home with your predictable travel
needs, you likely own a car, or maybe you lease one so that
you can replace it every three years. When you travel, or you
have unpredictable travel needs, you typically rent a car for
the time you need it.
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