As technology becomes central to business viability, enterprise IT is being asked to step up and do more, faster, at a lower cost. Legacy three-tier infrastructure architectures and traditional management practices cannot be used to deliver scalable on-demand services that support a wide range of applications. Enterprises have seen the benefits that web-scale IT has delivered to Internet companies, and are now exploring ways to embrace web-scale technologies. By some estimates, web-scale IT will be in half of the world’s companies by 2017.
The transition to web-scale IT involves changes across all aspects of IT. Web-scale infrastructure uses a distributed, scale-out architecture and is built with commodity x86 servers and intelligent software. The infrastructure is designed for always-on operation and leverages automation. The move to web-scale IT also involves embracing more flexible, agile processes to deploy and operate datacenters, as well as a shift from siloed, specialized teams to collaborative teams with a more general skill set.
Businesses can manage the risk of such a sweeping transformation by controlling either scope or pace. For example, companies can adopt web-scale IT for just their big data needs, hiring appropriate talent to deploy and maintain these environments. Another approach that allows for a more gradual transition is to use turnkey infrastructure solutions that use core web-scale principles and technologies to offer the benefits of web-scale without requiring immediate changes to organization or processes. Follow this link to download the free report and learn more about the value the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform delivers.

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