The AI boom has seen hyperscalers consuming GPUs, CPUs, and storage at an unprecedented rate. For everyone else, that means longer lead times, quotes that expire before you can approve them, and prices that just keep climbing. If your customers are thinking about modernisation, they need a better option than waiting for the market to settle.
The Nutanix Cloud Platform portfolio allows businesses to implement three key strategies to break away from hardware dependency and address current supply chain challenges:
1. Maximise what you already have
Right-sizing workloads and unlocking unused capacity that’s already been paid for is the fastest and most cost-effective way to defer costly purchases and address common issues like:
- Oversized VMs consuming unneeded compute and memory
- Bloated, inefficient databases that increase infrastructure footprint
- Inactive data on premium storage that could be shifted to lower-cost cloud tiers.
Reclaiming unused resources also gives customers more breathing room when it comes to hardware purchases while keeping critical modernisation projects moving.
2. Break free from single-vendor lock-in
Decoupling hardware from software helps businesses:
- Scale compute and storage independently so a block on one doesn’t affect the other
- Mix hardware generations and vendors to buy from whoever has stock at a fair price
- Tap into a broader ecosystem of certified hardware
Staying flexible is key to keeping modernisation efforts on track.
3. Tap the cloud for instant capacity
With Nutanix, organisations can:
- Spin up on-demand capacity across global regions without long procurement cycles
- Run existing workloads without refactoring or retraining operations teams
- Stand up temporary disaster recovery sites in the cloud
Interested in learning more about the Nutanix portfolio? Contact the Arrow Nutanix team to learn more.
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