Your Window is Narrowing

As the pace of innovation picks up, new business models are disrupting entire industries faster than ever before. In today’s digital economy, the opportunities to get ahead — or merely survive — are short lived. Recent macroeconomic shifts have forced some businesses to expedite transformation at unprecedented speed. For example, Microsoft saw some customers cram 2 years worth of transformation into 2 months.

This may be your last chance to transform your company. However, don’t let the pressure to move quickly force you to build on a shaky foundation.

A Smart Start Matters

It may be tempting to lay piecemeal solutions on top of existing functions in an effort to move quickly. Transforming disparate operations, however, makes it difficult to scale, which can not only stall transformation, but derail efforts entirely.

Business transformation starts with reframing your technology approach in a way that unites all functions rather than creating further segregation. Instead of building from the outside-in, you’ll want to create a flexible foundation from the start and grow new operations from the inside-up:

• Build on a technology foundation designed specifically for cloud choice
• Augment and up-skill talent internally rather than hunting for new resources outside
• Consolidate functions and automate processes rather than laying more on top

Enable Operational Unity

Businesses can no longer afford to operate in silos.

Data and decision makers must become connected through a unified system where access to resources is on-demand and instantaneous. Ask yourself, what technology can we use to democratize resources for our people, helping us automate processes and free up hands for more innovation?

For developers and decision makers, this means less time wasted on back-and-forth negotiations and more immediate access to tools and resources. For IT, this means more automation and simplified deployment, leaving them hands-free to uplevel their skills and create new business value.

Transform Three as One

People

The heart of transformation. It’s not enough to assign new tasks and patch talent gaps with outside resources. Promote upskilling by allocating meaningful time for special projects using new technology that builds upon existing skill sets. Focusing only on acquiring outside talent can stall progression and even cause more disruption.

Process

Transformation requires critical evaluation of current processes. Ask yourself, “Where could staff time be used more effectively?” Identify where AI and ML can reduce manual tasks for your staff and enable more self-service for your end users. More automation and less manual work reduce human error and lets you reallocate staffing resources to higher value work.

Technology

Re-platforming is not always an option, especially if it creates internal disruption and wastes capital investments. You’ll want a technology platform that lets you build upon existing investments without having to “rip and replace” all at once. This platform eventually helps you extend to multiple clouds and scale with seamless interoperability between all environments.

Choice Creates Business Elasticity

As workers become more distributed and computing demands increasingly fluctuate, having the flexibility to adapt quicker to change becomes crucial. Relying on a single cloud service, however, may not be cost-effective or provide the control and security you need for managing critical apps and data.

Your IT team needs the ability and cherry-pick and match applications and workloads to their most appropriate resources without interoperability concerns. Furthermore, they’ll need a simplified platform for managing and deploying resources securely across a widely distributed operation. This platform eventually helps expand operations and scale seamlessly with full interoperability between your private cloud and multiple public cloud environments, creating a hybrid multicloud.

Turn Multiple Clouds Into One

You may want to utilize one public cloud for a new workload while migrating legacy applications onto another. Concurrently, data for these applications may need to stay in your private cloud for cost-efficiency and security. Building your hybrid multicloud on a purposefully designed platform helps ensure interoperability from the start and lets you manage multiple clouds as one.

• Ensure resources and data are seamlessly shared across applications in any location
• Easily move applications between environments without refactoring
• Work around unique vendor configurations with a native integration across private and public clouds using consistent constructs and skill sets
• Bring-your-own-license (BYOL) with no vendor lock-in
• Create greater business elasticity to serve the growing workforce distribution and unpredictable fluctuations in demand

Mapping Your Cloud Journey

Start your journey with a purpose-built infrastructure platform that enables strategic placement, portability, and management of apps and workloads between private and public cloud environments.

Phase 1

Unify Your Infrastructure

CREATE A FLEXIBLE FOUNDATION WITH A 100% SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE

• Eliminate silos and reduce cumbersome maintenance
• Improve availability, minimize downtime, and recover faster from outages
• Enable easy, fast, and economical expansion through one-click scaling

SIMPLE, PORTABLE AND READY FOR CLOUD

• No vendor lock-in
• Fully portable software platform that supports a variety of hardware, hypervisors and clouds so you can customize to your business needs
• Standardized configuration and interoperability across multiple environments

Phase 2

Automate Operations and Delivery

Bringing cloud services inside enables the scalability and ease-of-use of the public cloud, with the added security, control, and performance of on-prem infrastructure. Your private cloud becomes your on-ramp to hybrid and multicloud operations. Automate management with an intelligent, versatile cloud-ready infrastructure that enables self-service so users can quickly obtain IT resources. Instead of the lengthy delays waiting for new technology resources — for example, a week for servers, another week for storage, three days for networking equipment, 3 days for a VM and other useful software — a private cloud gives you a cost-effective and easy way to utilize new resources instantly.

Augment and Upskill IT

Transformation takes a massive culture and mindset shift from the collective organizational body. Like the technology platform itself, transformation does not mean to “rip and replace” your in-house talent, but rather amplifying existing skill sets and reallocating them to drive new business value.

The impending skills deficit is already a top 5 challenge for the future of IT and sourcing qualified talent will become increasingly challenging. Free up your existing staff’s time by automating manual tasks and routine maintenance using a platform with natively integrated AI and adaptive ML, so they can focus on more strategic problem solving, collaboration, and management.

Phase 3

Integrate Public Cloud

Once you have a flexible, web-scale architecture governing the systems in your data center and delivering ITaaS through a private cloud, it’s time to start enabling public cloud integration. This can include, for example, implementing cost governance with showback and chargeback across clouds, security and compliance auditing, and delivering desktops from both on-prem and cloud but with a common broker. This sets the groundwork for a well-architected hybrid cloud.

DON’T GET LOST IN THE CLOUDS

Unlike the typical approach of separately interfacing with different public cloud resources, Nutanix provides a native extension into public cloud with an architecture designed from the ground up. This allows you to easily move application workloads and burst capacity across clouds without re-architecting.

Phase 4

Unify Your Hybrid MultiCloud Operations

Interoperability between your on-prem and cloud environments is a crucial piece of your transformation puzzle. Many organizations will task IT with recreating processes to manage these new environments. This often results in dedicated teams and specialized skill sets just to maintain the infrastructure. You may ask yourself, “Is this solving the problem or creating more complexity?”

Nutanix was purposefully designed to avoid this issue. A 100% software-defined architecture, Nutanix provides a single platform that unifies hybrid multicloud management using a native integration between private and public clouds. Seamlessly move your workloads, apps, data, and licenses across any location. Easily deploy services from any environment for any application using a single management console — accelerating support for your rapid pace of innovation.

• On-demand elasticity to instantly scale up or scale down
• Seamless business workload mobility between clouds with no re-platforming
• Always-on operations with one click DR to cloud
• Maintain familiar workflows and toolsets enabled by cloud native integration
• Support large scale VDI deployments and I/O intensive apps utilizing cloud
• Save costs by hibernating unused resources

Measuring Transformation Success

• 62% lower 5-year*
• 85% less unplanned downtime*
• 53% less staff time to deploy compute resources*
• 58% more efficient IT infrastructure management*

*IDC White Paper [2020] Organizations Leverage Nutanix Enterprise Cloud as Scalable, High-Performing, and Cost-Effective Infrastructure Foundation

Infinite Resources, Infinite Delight

Successful transformation allows you to join your customers in an endless ecosystem of data and information. No longer tethered to the complexity of legacy systems, your innovators are free to build with infinite scale, helping your business forge deeper relationships with your customers.

The journey to cloud is about more than technology, it’s about fundamentally changing how we do business based on three principles:

Simplicity

How quickly you can innovate is dependent on how simply you can turn ideas into action. Companies become their own gating factor when processes and technology are too complex and stall movement.

Choice

Match applications to the best resource for optimal performance and cost. Gain the true cost savings and performance of hybrid cloud with options to build on existing investments and seamlessly extend resource and deployment options to multiple clouds.

Delight

Successfully transformed businesses can deliver exceptional, personalized experiences to all customers. Internal users benefit from seamless, on-demand access to resources and end customers experience a frictionless partnership that is focused on value and trust.

Chart Your Course to Cloud, Your Way

Imagine a future where your business and customers are deeply linked in an infinitely connected, data-driven relationship. Your data becomes new revenue, predicts your next move, informs real-time decision making, and scales with you as your business grows. Business and technology leaders are united, driving accelerated innovation together. Your IT team has maintenance on auto-pilot and innovation as their top priority. Resources come in a snap and ideas go to market faster than ever. Successful transformation makes this future a reality and we’re here to help you make that happen.