EDITOR’S QUESTION
ANDREW BRIND
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strict policies and protec
that don’t differentiate
competitors, the public c
So, what we see today is
Most companies still hav
IT, most have some sort
investment and most ha
private cloud. They will u
PaaS where they make s
increasingly seeking way
underlying services more
and secure.
Multi-cloud deployment is becoming
a hugely popular IT strategy all
around the world for reasons
to do with flexibility, risk management
and maturity. In its best form, it offers a
smorgasbord of cloud computing assets
from applications to infrastructure in
a unified architecture with excellent
manageability from one console.
You need to think back to understand why
multi-cloud is so attractive. Ten or 15 years
ago, you might have heard people profess
‘there’s no way I’m risking security by
putting my data in the cloud’. Later, they
got religion and you heard people say: ‘from
now on, everything is going in the public
cloud’. What we see now is an adjustment to
a more centrist position: people want certain
IT platforms to match certain use cases.
That means if you have very important
intellectual property or highly sensitive data,
you might well want to keep that behind
your firewall in a private cloud with very
Again, if you study the h
should come as no surpr
technologies emerge, bu
the signal to get rid of e
you have. Thirty years ag
saying the mainframe is
would disappear becaus
architecture, but the ma
So, what we see is a hyb
multiple cloud platforms
but companies also mai
on premises and often in
colocation providers and
therefore incumbent on
Nutanix to support all th
Having a variegated app
different categories of IT
different platforms make
It also means that CIOs
themselves in to certain
platforms, giving them m
power and adaptability.
that most prized of mod
qualities – agility.
I’m tempted to argue th
Stones were to re-record
the current IT generation
call to something like ‘Ge
on it, choose another clo
enjoy a combination of a
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