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Hybrid multicloud computing is an IT architecture that integrates two or more public clouds with at least one private cloud (on-premises or hosted) into a single, cohesive operating environment. This approach allows enterprises to run workloads in the most suitable location based on factors like cost, performance, compliance, and security requirements. 

Hybrid multicloud is becoming essential because it provides greater flexibility, avoids vendor lock-in, enhances resilience by distributing workloads, and enables organizations to optimize their IT resources. Businesses can leverage the scalability and global reach of public clouds while retaining sensitive data or critical applications in a more controlled datacenter environment, thus meeting diverse operational and regulatory needs.

Because it runs across datacenter, public cloud, service provider, and edge environments, Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers a simple, unified hybrid multicloud experience, reducing operational complexity, simplifying governance, and enabling greater agility and improved business outcomes.

Adopting a hybrid multicloud strategy offers key benefits, including enhanced flexibility, improved resilience, cost optimization, and reduced vendor lock-in. 

Flexibility is gained by allowing workloads to be placed or moved to the cloud that best fits their specific needs (e.g., low-cost for development, high-performance for production). 

Resilience is boosted by distributing applications and data across multiple independent infrastructures, minimizing the impact of outages in a single cloud. 

Cost optimization is achieved by dynamically leveraging the most economical resources for different workloads. 

Crucially, a hybrid multicloud approach mitigates vendor lock-in by providing options to move between different cloud providers and private infrastructure, ensuring greater control and negotiation power for the enterprise.

By providing a unified approach to hybrid multicloud deployment and management, Nutanix Cloud Platform amplifies the benefits of flexibility and resilience. Nutanix also provides unified security and cost governance for your entire hybrid multicloud environment.

Enterprises face challenges in implementing and managing a hybrid multicloud environment, including operational complexity, consistent security and compliance, data gravity, and talent acquisition. 

Managing disparate public and private cloud environments, each with its own APIs, tools, and management consoles, leads to significant operational complexity and overhead. Ensuring consistent security policies, identity management, and compliance across varied environments is a daunting task. 

"Data gravity" refers to the difficulty of moving large datasets between clouds due to egress costs, bandwidth limitations, and time, which can hinder workload mobility. 

Finally, a shortage of IT professionals with expertise across multiple cloud platforms further complicates effective deployment and management.

With the same operating environment everywhere and a unified hybrid multicloud management approach, Nutanix addresses the challenges that otherwise come with managing multiple environments, with consistent security policies and compliance tools. Having the same tools and processes everywhere reduces the need to hire separate teams to operate each environment, reducing staffing pressure, saving costs, and reducing the risk of operator errors.

Zero-trust security is critical for hybrid multicloud environments to protect sensitive data across diverse, interconnected systems. Unlike traditional perimeter-based security, zero-trust assumes no user or device is inherently trusted, requiring continuous verification. 

In hybrid multicloud setups, where data spans on-premises servers and multiple cloud platforms, this approach mitigates risks.

Zero-trust employs strict identity verification, micro-segmentation, and encryption to secure workloads, ensuring only authorized access to applications. 

Nutanix enhances zero-trust security in hybrid multicloud environments with features like role-based access controls, automated threat detection, and encryption across on-premises and cloud systems. Our hyperconverged infrastructure integrates with zero-trust frameworks, ensuring seamless, secure data management across hybrid multicloud environments.

Enterprises use cloud management platforms, automation tools, and orchestration frameworks to manage hybrid multicloud at scale.

To simplify operations, organizations adopt cloud management platforms that provide unified views and control across environments. These tools help with provisioning, monitoring, cost tracking, security enforcement, and policy management. 

Automation and orchestration tools—such as Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes—can further reduce complexity by standardizing infrastructure-as-code and application deployment. The goal is to create a seamless experience across diverse clouds and on-prem systems.

Nutanix takes a deeper approach to hybrid multicloud management. In addition to providing the same management capabilities across the hybrid multicloud, Nutanix provides the same operating platform. This ensures that not only can everything be managed the same way using the same tools, but all application workloads and services can be deployed and managed identically everywhere.

Digital sovereignty is the principle that digital information is subject to the laws and governance of the country where it is stored. This includes where data is collected, stored, and processed, regardless of where the managing organization is located. Digital sovereignty can be crucial, particularly for governments and organizations in highly regulated industries.

There are several key aspects of digital sovereignty: infrastructure independence, data control, regulatory authority, economic control, and security autonomy. It is essential to build robust internal IT management, governance, and oversight capabilities and to develop technical architecture and integration expertise to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure system interoperability.

Nutanix solutions are designed to support digital sovereignty by allowing you to run applications and data in various locations with data residency enforcement and strong security features, including in disconnected environments. 

Resilience is enhanced through comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions, and digital sovereignty is protected with encryption and security measures like microsegmentation, providing greater control over digital assets and operations.