EDITOR’S QUESTION
ANDREW BRINDED,
VICE PRESIDENT AND
SALES CHIEF OPERATING
OFFICER AT NUTANIX
ulti-cloud deployment
is becoming a hugely
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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
to match certain use c
That means if you have
intellectual property or
data, you might well w
behind your firewall in
with very strict policies
For processes that don
from your competitors
works very well.
So, what we see today
everything. Most comp
some on-premises IT, m
sort of public cloud inv
most have an element
They will use SaaS, Iaa
where they make sens
increasingly seeking w
of the underlying servi
manageable and secur
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