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New IDC Report Reveals Significant Business Value of Automation, Orchestration and Governance with the Nutanix Cloud Platform

By Mayank Gupta, Director Cloud Management GTM, Nutanix

January 23, 2025 | min

As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multicloud strategies, the complexity of managing these environments has become one of the most pressing challenges in IT today. To address this, we're excited to announce the release of a new IDC Business Value White Paper, which quantifies the substantial benefits organizations are realizing with the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution, using the capabilities of its Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) suite of service solutions.

This comprehensive study by IDC comes at a pivotal time in the evolution of IT infrastructure management. We're witnessing a shift where traditional IT administrators are evolving into cloud platform engineers, tasked with designing, implementing, and managing complex hybrid cloud architectures. NCM is designed to support this transformation, offering a unified platform that streamlines management across diverse cloud environments.

For customers leveraging the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) solution, NCM offers a seamless extension of their existing investments. It provides a single pane for managing both on-premises and public cloud resources, enabling consistent governance, security and cost optimization across your entire infrastructure.

Importantly, this IDC study is based on real-world deployments by mid to large-sized customers, ensuring that the findings reflect actual use cases and challenges faced by organizations. The IDC report highlights the significant impact NCM is having on organizations:

"Based on interviews with organizations currently using Nutanix Cloud Manager, IDC calculates that they will realize benefits worth an average of $3.73 million per organization per year."

This value is realized through various improvements, including enhanced IT staff efficiency, reduced infrastructure costs and increased business agility. Perhaps most impressively, the study found that the NCM customers interviewed by IDC for the study could expect to achieve:

"425% three-year return on investment with a payback period of only 5 months."

These figures underscore the transformative potential of NCM in today's complex IT landscapes.

Independent Customer Validation

Beyond the numbers, the report explores how NCM is enabling organizations to:

  • Optimize resource allocation and reduce costs
  • Improve security posture across hybrid environments
  • Accelerate application deployment and updates
  • Enhance overall infrastructure performance and reliability

As we continue to innovate and expand NCM's capabilities, we're committed to supporting our customers in their journey towards more efficient, agile and cost-effective cloud operations.

We invite you to explore the full IDC report and discover how NCM can drive significant value for your organization. Click here to download the full report and unlock the potential of simplified hybrid cloud management.

Also, we just launched a new revamped Test Drive for Nutanix Cloud Manager, where you can try out the features for multicloud management through automation and robust security. See for yourself how NCM can help you Build, Operate and Govern in a hybrid environment.

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