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Enterprise Cloud For Dummies, Nutanix Special Edition
Although you can use the public cloud to counter these
issues, you know that the public cloud isn’t always an option.
With a solution that enables enterprise cloud capabilities, you
gain the ability to deploy workloads that can flex, much like in
the public cloud. You get pay‐as‐you‐grow scaling. If resources
become low, you simply add a hyperconverged infrastructure
appliance. You don’t need to overprovision storage, for example. Further, you avoid infrastructure sitting idle.
With hyperconverged infrastructure‐supported enterprise
cloud services, you can adopt a “just in time” infrastructure
mentality that is super‐easy to scale. You simply call your
vendor, ask for another node, and deploy it. The infrastructure should be all but invisible to the users. They shouldn’t
have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. They
should only be focused on their workloads.
With the right enterprise cloud‐centric infrastructure, you can
scale up and down on demand. Figure 3‐3 shows how easily
you can add resources to grow an environment. As you add
more nodes, you can scale resources in a linear manner.

Figure 3-3: Linear scale‐out infrastructure supports the needs of the
enterprise cloud.

Integrated security and control
Organizations across the globe are working hard to secure
their environments against attacks from within and from
the outside. As the potential fallout from security issues

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