The following comments from Chris Augenstein have been lightly edited for clarity and length.
As the virtualization provider industry evolves, it’s important for enterprises to plan for potential changes on several fronts. Virtualization customers should enact a risk-mitigation strategy to navigate disruption, including mergers and acquisitions, performance and scalability shifts and pricing changes. To address uncertainty and ensure resiliency, leaders can consider the following strategies to offset risk with their virtualization solution.
1. Diversify With A Dual-Vendor Approach
Introducing a second virtualization and cloud platform reduces reliance on one vendor and mitigates risk. This approach involves constraining new investments in an existing VM solution as you deploy new workloads on the new platform. Emerging AI workloads, in particular, benefit from a modern architecture that delivers more control, privacy and security. Nutanix Cloud Platform, for example, enables legacy application operation on your current storage area network (SAN) platform while migrating modern workloads to a software-defined, adaptable infrastructure that ensures your business is future-ready.
2. Migrate Off Your Legacy VM Platform
As leaders evaluate their options, transitioning to an alternative platform also involves curtailing new investments in their legacy vendor. Nutanix offers a lower total cost of ownership solution with high customer satisfaction including an enterprise-grade hypervisor in a modern, efficient platform that supports all workloads. You can efficiently move existing applications using Nutanix-supplied migration toolkits and professional services.
If your IT philosophy is to rebalance your investments between on-prem data centers and clouds, Nutanix provides a secure, fast and cost-effective pathway. We streamline the public cloud infrastructure build-out process, giving clients full control without relying on their legacy software solution. This option can be particularly advantageous if you have existing licensing investments in public cloud providers.
3. Rebalance Workloads With A Hybrid Multicloud IT Operating Model
Organizations navigating provider transitions will benefit from maintaining their existing VM licenses while adding infrastructure that creates a hybrid multicloud platform. This approach allows enterprises to match each workload to the IT environment best suited to it.
Nutanix, with its cloud-smart approach to IT, supports unified operations across private infrastructure (on-prem and/or hosted) and one or more public cloud platforms, with interoperability, license portability and consistent operations irrespective of native cloud technology. The open platform also allows businesses to seamlessly move applications among environments without having to refactor them as security, performance and other business requirements shift alongside changes in vendor offerings.
Navigating Change And Uncertainty
With dynamic shifts in the virtual provider sector, customers need a reliable strategy to manage risk and future-proof their businesses.
Virtualization customers can protect themselves by diversifying and modernizing their IT environments in a way that doesn’t lock them into a legacy platform or a public cloud solution. Finding an open and flexible platform supported by the industry’s best customer experience and a trusted ecosystem of solution partners can help enterprises navigate change and uncertainty with ease and trust.
