Storage Mobility to Meet the Challenges of Hybrid Multicloud

Today's business challenges are unprecedented. Companies are dealing with an explosion of data and applications. IT environments are complex and acquisitions of longtime vendors are having the C-suite rethink their install base.

Meanwhile, shadow IT is swiping credit cards simply to get work done which exacerbates the challenge. Lack of flexibility and choice lead business units to solve their problems the best way they can. Unfortunately, some decisions are not easy to change once applications are up and running.

Hyperconverged infrastructure on-premises fixed a lot of issues around responding to the speed of the business and now has made its way into the public cloud over the last five years. Today, a single cloud platform can address security, management and data sovereignty by deploying into the right hyperscaler, service provider or edge site where more and more processing occurs.

In terms of future planning, it can't only be about optimizing for today. If my life in IT has taught me anything, it's that change is the only constant. That's why I think a key consideration for setting your business on the right path is mobility for your workloads. I'm referring to the mobility of your data and networking. The best location for your applications today will probably be different a couple of years from now.

In this blog, I will explain how Nutanix is solving storage mobility challenges while my next blog will explore networking in hybrid multicloud environments.

In your private data centers, your favorite hyperscaler with the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution, along with specialized service providers, can give you a solid foundation to move workloads anywhere. Nutanix disaster recovery is the primary tool to move workloads from one place to the next.

If plans change or the economics are advantageous in a different location, you can simply run a planned failover and be up and running in your new destination quickly. Nutanix disaster recovery has policies for setting replication schedules and recovery plans to ensure that workloads come up in the right order with the needed network resources.