Spokesperson: Mohammad Wahba, Director, Systems Engineering – Middle East at
Nutanix.
Modern day organizations are confronted with the challenge of transitioning from legacy IT
systems to the new era of multi-cloud environments, that can completely transform the business and deliver competitive advantages, placing them in leadership positions.
A multi-cloud strategy offers a range of valuable business benefits including flexibility, scalability,increased efficiencies, lowered costs and access to cutting-edge technologies. But with great power comes great responsibility (and risk). Enterprises navigating these dynamic environments need an approach that avoids the potential pitfalls associated with multiple clouds. Here's how to navigate the multi-cloud world with confidence:
Identifying Multi-cloud Challenges:
Security: Segregated services across multiple clouds increase the attack surface which
expose high threats of ransomware and various malicious vulnerabilities.
Vendor Lock-in: Over-reliance on a single vendor/ cloud provider can limit flexibility and
inflate costs.
Data Residency and Compliance: Regulations governing data storage and privacy vary by
region.
Integration Complexity: Managing and integrating applications across multiple cloud
platforms can be challenging.
Skills shortage: Acquiring high caliber talent and skills to run multi-cloud environments
remains a challenge in the IT market.
Based on Nutanix’s latest Enterprise Cloud Index 2024 research published in March this year,the main findings were:
90% of ECI respondents are taking a “cloud smart” approach to their infrastructure strategy – leveraging the best environment (e.g., data center, public cloud, edge) for each of their applications. It is no wonder that hybrid and multi-cloud environments have become the de facto infrastructure standard.
Over 80% of organizations believe hybrid IT environments are most beneficial to their ability
to manage applications and data.
78% of organizations are planning to invest more in security strategies for multi-cloud.
37% indicated that their AI based applications require the modernization that multicloud
offerings can grant them, if all challenges are governed with a standard cloud operating
model.
De-risking the Multi-cloud Strategy:
By adopting a proactive risk mitigation approach, organizations can harness the full potential of the multi-cloud world while minimizing potential disruptions. Remember, the journey to a secure multi-cloud environment is a continuous process, requiring ongoing adaptation and governance.
De-risking involves the following steps:Build the standard cloud operating model: Invest in building a cloud operating model that
caters for international hyper-scalers, as well as local cloud providers, while being able to
operate on-prem environments.
Embrace portability: Choose a cloud operating model that relies on open standards and
easy data migration capabilities. This reduces vendor lock-in and simplifies future cloud
transitions.
Cloud cost management: Implement FinOps enabled cost optimization and governance
model to automate cloud expenditure visibility, resource usage and identify opportunities for cost savings across providers.
Multi-cloud disaster recovery (DR): Develop a comprehensive automated DR runbook
that accounts for outages or disruptions in any of your cloud environments while assuring
seamless business continuity.
Invest in the right expertise: Upskill your IT team and consider partnering with cloud
security specialists.
The Nutanix Multi-Cloud Risk Mitigation Practice:
Nutanix is a company focused on helping customers with a cloud experience that assures
modernization, simplicity, data centricity and portability.
Nutanix cloud platform is built with the secret sauce of its industry leading hyper-converged
infrastructure technologies, based on AI/ Big Data distributed architecture, offering customers:
A consistent and unified single platform
AI based innovation to deliver the best experience for each hosted application/ data
53% more efficient multi-cloud management and orchestration
60% faster time-to-value, utilizing various cloud options without service disruption
E2E best-in-class security, governance and compliance for apps/ data.
Unmatched ease of use that grants faster skillset and talent acquisition
Portability of licenses and workloads between cloud options or on-prem assuring no
vendor/cloud lock-in.
