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Enterprise Cloud For Dummies, Nutanix Special Edition
The Enterprise Cloud
Here’s a quick recap of what today’s businesses demand.
Businesses want the public cloud for
✓ Fractional consumption and pay‐as‐you‐grow economics
✓ Infrastructure and platform resources on demand (agility)
✓ Zero operational overhead
✓ Delegated infrastructure security, governance, and risk
management
But they still want
✓ Balance between owning and renting, especially as workload characteristics change
✓ Proximity of data and services
✓ Tailored SLAs for specific applications
✓ Flexibility and choice of platform
Today, enterprise IT offers control, which you need for many
applications, but when business users need f