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Bottomline Technologies Relies on Nutanix for Online Payments Processing

Businesses around the world depend on Bottomline Technologies solutions to help them make complex business payments simple, smart, and secure, including some of the world’s largest banks, and private and publicly traded companies. The company now runs core business applications that are responsible for revenue generation on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, replacing its legacy server and SAN environment. With Nutanix, the company:

  • Quickly and easily handles service growth with predictable, linear scaling
  • Delivered its cloud-based service from a secure datacenter environment
  • Increased customer adoption and satisfaction by eliminating the need for on-premises infrastructure at customer sites
  • Significantly reduced support and maintenance, freeing resources for other projects

As far as the customer is concerned payment processing is all done in the cloud but with none of the security, governance and compliance issues associated with public cloud platforms.

  • — Peter Marshall, Head of Infrastructure, Bottomline Technologies Inc.

Creating an On-Ramp to Hybrid Cloud

Although some enterprises are migrating applications back on premises, public cloud still plays an important role in your overall IT strategy. In this chapter we’ll explore:

  • Why hybrid cloud is the preferred enterprise model
  • How private cloud choices affect hybrid cloud success
  • Practical ways to move from private to hybrid cloud
  • Deciding where to deploy an application
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Creating an On-Ramp to Hybrid Cloud

Although some enterprises are migrating applications back on premises, public cloud still plays an important role in your overall IT strategy. In this chapter we’ll explore:

  • Why hybrid cloud is the preferred enterprise model
  • How private cloud choices affect hybrid cloud success
  • Practical ways to move from private to hybrid cloud
  • Deciding where to deploy an application
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Why Hybrid Cloud?

If you’ve already made—or are planning to make—the necessary investments to establish an effective private cloud, you might wonder whether a hybrid cloud is truly needed. While you may not be ready to adopt a hybrid cloud solution today, consider the possibility that your development team could approach you in six months with a new cloud-native application designed to handle significant traffic during the holiday season. How will you secure the resources to support this demand? Enterprise IT teams must be prepared for such unexpected scenarios.

It has become increasingly evident that hybrid cloud is the preferred operating model for many organizations. As highlighted in our 2019 study, 85% of enterprises consider hybrid cloud to be the ideal IT operating model. This comprehensive report surveyed 2,650 IT decision-makers worldwide, exploring where they currently run their business applications, their future plans, the challenges they face in the cloud, and how their cloud initiatives compare to other IT projects and priorities.

  • Flexibility and Agility: The ability to quickly access resources is essential for supporting new applications, accommodating development and testing projects, or addressing unforeseen needs. Your private cloud can adapt to meet resource demands in most situations, with the option to tap into virtually unlimited public cloud resources as necessary.
  • Elasticity: The hybrid cloud model allows you to respond dynamically to seasonal resource demands. Certain applications may experience significant fluctuations in resource usage and perform best in a public cloud environment, where they can easily scale up resources when needed and release them when they are not.
  • Cost Control: Designing data centers to handle peak loads often results in infrastructure that remains underutilized for much of the time. Utilizing public cloud resources to manage peak demands is a more efficient and cost-effective approach.
  • User Experience: The laws of physics cannot be ignored. Delivering IT services from a distant data center can introduce unacceptable latency, hindering effectiveness. The public cloud enables rapid expansion into new regions where you may not have a data center, allowing you to bring digital services closer to your customers.
  • Application and lifecycle management
  • Security governance
  • Cost governance

Private Cloud is an On-Ramp to
Hybrid Cloud

Private Cloud is an On-Ramp to Hybrid Cloud

An effective private cloud solution should seamlessly enable integration with the public cloud. This includes providing tools for copying, replicating, or migrating virtual machines (VMs) and data between locations, supporting various hypervisors, and accommodating both VMs and containers.

One of the primary challenges in any hybrid cloud deployment is the potential for vastly different management environments between your private and public clouds.

This disparity complicates deployment and ongoing management, increasing the risk of operator errors, security vulnerabilities, and cost overruns. Additionally, it can be challenging to align equivalent VMs and storage across different environments or to map functionalities in your private cloud to their counterparts in the public cloud.

A Practical Approach to Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Guidelines for evaluating hybrid cloud maturity emphasize the importance of automation, visibility, and consistency across both private and public environments. However, many current approaches to hybrid cloud focus primarily on figuring out how to integrate various components. Given the realities of today’s cloud landscape, Nutanix advocates for a different strategy:

  • Select a Unified Framework: Opt for a single "cloud operating system" that enables you to manage workloads seamlessly across both on-premises and public cloud environments.
  • Implement Your Private Cloud: Build your private cloud using this chosen framework.
  • Choose Compatible Public Clouds: Select only those public clouds that are compatible with your framework.

Aligning Applications to Clouds

Enterprises implementing a hybrid cloud strategy must determine which applications—or components of applications—should be deployed in each cloud environment.

Typically, private cloud infrastructure is the most cost-effective choice for stable enterprise workloads and development needs, while public cloud services excel in handling elastic workloads, cloud-native applications, and unexpected resource demands.

When organizations evaluate which applications and workloads to migrate to the public cloud, they often prioritize the following opportunities:

  • Select a Unified Framework: Opt for a single "cloud operating system" that enables you to manage workloads seamlessly across both on-premises and public cloud environments.
  • Implement Your Private Cloud: Build your private cloud using this chosen framework.
  • Choose Compatible Public Clouds: Select only those public clouds that are compatible with your framework.
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Aligning Applications to Clouds

Enterprises implementing a hybrid cloud strategy must determine which applications—or components of applications—should be deployed in each cloud environment.

Typically, private cloud infrastructure is the most cost-effective choice for stable enterprise workloads and development needs, while public cloud services excel in handling elastic workloads, cloud-native applications, and unexpected resource demands.

When organizations evaluate which applications and workloads to migrate to the public cloud, they often prioritize the following opportunities:

  • Select a Unified Framework: Opt for a single "cloud operating system" that enables you to manage workloads seamlessly across both on-premises and public cloud environments.
  • Implement Your Private Cloud: Build your private cloud using this chosen framework.
  • Choose Compatible Public Clouds: Select only those public clouds that are compatible with your framework.
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How to Best Take Advantage
of Public Cloud

Take a strategic look at what you want to accomplish before considering individual applications and create a cloud decision matrix that includes all the factors that need to go into your decision to move an application from your datacenter to a cloud service provider. This includes assessing likely costs and whether an application is ready for the cloud:

  • Does the application consume and release resources as needed or is it persistent?
  • What’s the I/O pattern? Steady or fluctuating? High or low?
  • Does the application scale vertically or horizontally?
  • Does the application consume more and more resources over time in a way that you can’t control or limit?
  • Does the application depend on an ecosystem of other applications?
  • Does the application have stringent compliance requirements?
  • What is the impact to your business if the application is up but unreachable?

Fast-Growing Online Retailer Puts Nutanix at the Core of Hybrid Cloud

In just over a decade, vidaXL, based in the Netherlands, has evolved into a global online retailer, establishing multiple fulfillment centers throughout Europe, Australia, and the USA. To enhance its operations, the company selected Nutanix to overhaul its fragmented infrastructure with a hybrid cloud solution that integrates top-tier public cloud services with on-premises Nutanix infrastructure.

Nutanix now underpins a range of essential workloads, including SAP, Linux databases, Genesys PureCloud contact center, and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. This strategic shift has yielded immediate advantages, such as:

  • Unified management of its distributed private cloud through Prism Central
  • Streamlined support with a single point of contact for all operations
  • Cost reductions from a smaller footprint, as well as lower maintenance, power, and cooling expenses
  • Decreased virtualization costs thanks to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor
  • Built-in tools facilitating public cloud integration within the hybrid cloud framework

Using the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to build a private cloud has enabled us to address all the issues around performance, scalability, management and support associated with our previous, diverse and fragmented, IT infrastructure. It has also made our IT much more stable and provided a firm foundation for a hybrid cloud, able to further scale and cope with growth where required.

  • — Bart van Es, IT Manager, vidaXL

How to Best Take Advantage
of Public Cloud

How to Best Take Advantage of Public Cloud

Take a strategic look at what you want to accomplish before considering individual applications and create a cloud decision matrix that includes all the factors that need to go into your decision to move an application from your datacenter to a cloud service provider. This includes assessing likely costs and whether an application is ready for the cloud:

  • Does the application consume and release resources as needed or is it persistent?
  • What’s the I/O pattern? Steady or fluctuating? High or low?
  • Does the application scale vertically or horizontally?
  • Does the application consume more and more resources over time in a way that you can’t control or limit?
  • Does the application depend on an ecosystem of other applications?
  • Does the application have stringent compliance requirements?
  • What is the impact to your business if the application is up but unreachable?

Fast-Growing Online Retailer Puts Nutanix at the Core of Hybrid Cloud

In just over a decade, vidaXL, based in the Netherlands, has evolved into a global online retailer, establishing multiple fulfillment centers throughout Europe, Australia, and the USA. To enhance its operations, the company selected Nutanix to overhaul its fragmented infrastructure with a hybrid cloud solution that integrates top-tier public cloud services with on-premises Nutanix infrastructure.

Nutanix now underpins a range of essential workloads, including SAP, Linux databases, Genesys PureCloud contact center, and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. This strategic shift has yielded immediate advantages, such as:

  • Unified management of its distributed private cloud through Prism Central
  • Streamlined support with a single point of contact for all operations
  • Cost reductions from a smaller footprint, as well as lower maintenance, power, and cooling expenses
  • Decreased virtualization costs thanks to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor
  • Built-in tools facilitating public cloud integration within the hybrid cloud framework

Using the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to build a private cloud has enabled us to address all the issues around performance, scalability, management and support associated with our previous, diverse and fragmented, IT infrastructure. It has also made our IT much more stable and provided a firm foundation for a hybrid cloud, able to further scale and cope with growth where required.

  • — Bart van Es, IT Manager, vidaXL

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