Are You Drowning in Cloud Chaos? There's a Better Way.

Adopting a hybrid multicloud strategy offers key benefits, including enhanced flexibility, improved resilience, cost optimization, and reduced vendor lock-in.

Flexibility: Run workloads where they perform best and cost least—whether that's on-premises for compliance, in the cloud for scalability, or at the edge for low latency. Resilience: Distribute applications and data across independent infrastructures. If one environment has an outage, the others keep running. See disaster recovery solutions → Cost optimization: Use the most economical resources for each workload. Avoid overprovisioning. Shut down what you're not using. Explore cost governance → No vendor lock-in: You're not trapped in one cloud provider's ecosystem. You can move workloads, negotiate better pricing, and make technology decisions based on your needs—not a vendor's roadmap.

Nutanix amplifies these benefits with unified management, consistent security, and cost governance tools that work everywhere.

Enterprises face challenges in implementing and managing a hybrid multicloud environment, including operational complexity, consistent security and compliance, data gravity, and talent acquisition.

Managing disparate public and private cloud environments, each with its own APIs, tools, and management consoles, leads to significant operational complexity and overhead. Ensuring consistent security policies, identity management, and compliance across varied environments is a daunting task. "Data gravity" refers to the difficulty of moving large datasets between clouds due to egress costs, bandwidth limitations, and time, which can hinder workload mobility. Finally, a shortage of IT professionals with expertise across multiple cloud platforms further complicates effective deployment and management.

With the same operating environment everywhere and a unified hybrid multicloud management approach, Nutanix addresses the challenges that otherwise come with managing multiple environments, with consistent security policies and compliance tools. Having the same tools and processes everywhere reduces the need to hire separate teams to operate each environment, reducing staffing pressure, saving costs, and reducing the risk of operator errors.

Zero-trust security is critical for hybrid multicloud environments to protect sensitive data across diverse, interconnected systems. Unlike traditional perimeter-based security, zero-trust assumes no user or device is inherently trusted, requiring continuous verification.

In hybrid multicloud setups, where data spans on-premises servers and multiple cloud platforms, this approach mitigates risks. Zero-trust employs strict identity verification, micro-segmentation, and encryption to secure workloads, ensuring only authorized access to applications.

Nutanix enhances zero-trust security in hybrid multicloud environments with features like role-based access controls, automated threat detection, and encryption across on-premises and cloud systems. Our hyperconverged infrastructure integrates with zero-trust frameworks, ensuring seamless, secure data management across hybrid multicloud environments.

Enterprises use cloud management platforms, automation tools, and orchestration frameworks to manage hybrid multicloud at scale.

To simplify operations, organizations adopt cloud management platforms that provide unified views and control across environments. These tools help with provisioning, monitoring, cost tracking, security enforcement, and policy management. Automation and orchestration tools—such as Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes—can further reduce complexity by standardizing infrastructure-as-code and application deployment. The goal is to create a seamless experience across diverse clouds and on-prem systems.

Nutanix takes a deeper approach to hybrid multicloud management. In addition to providing the same management capabilities across the hybrid multicloud, Nutanix provides the same operating platform. This ensures that not only can everything be managed the same way using the same tools, but all application workloads and services can be deployed and managed identically everywhere.

Digital sovereignty is the principle that digital information is subject to the laws and governance of the country where it is stored. This includes where data is collected, stored, and processed, regardless of where the managing organization is located. Digital sovereignty can be crucial, particularly for governments and organizations in highly regulated industries.

There are several key aspects of digital sovereignty: infrastructure independence, data control, regulatory authority, economic control, and security autonomy. It is essential to build robust internal IT management, governance, and oversight capabilities and to develop technical architecture and integration expertise to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure system interoperability.

Nutanix solutions are designed to support digital sovereignty by allowing you to run applications and data in various locations with data residency enforcement and strong security features, including in disconnected environments. Resilience is enhanced through comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions, and digital sovereignty is protected with encryption and security measures like microsegmentation, providing greater control over digital assets and operations.