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How To Choose the Right Cloud Professional Services

Migrating to a cloud operating model enables you to capitalize on flexibility, scalability, and certain cost efficiencies that are only possible with the cloud. However, there are many complex aspects of the cloud that can make it difficult to deploy and implement out of the box.

By choosing the right cloud professional services, you will have expert assistance every step of the way to ensure you get your cloud infrastructure running with minimal disruption to your business.

Key Takeaways:

Professional services in the cloud help you set up your deployment, keep operations running smoothly, and maximize your return on cloud-based investments at every step.
The right professional services will accelerate deployment so you can start extracting value from your investment as early as day one.
Cloud services also offer a chance for education for yourself and your team, leading to cloud independence and cost savings in the long run.

What Are Cloud Professional Services?

Professional services are the customer-focused services offered by a software provider to guarantee you have the support you need as a user or operator. These services are crucial for ensuring business continuity when complications arise and otherwise unlocking the full potential of the tools at your disposal.

Cloud professional services in particular are offered by platform providers and other cloud-centric software vendors. The cloud is a complex environment with seemingly infinite variables at play, so it is necessary to have experts at hand who can help solve any type of problem involving the use of your cloud-based tools and other investments.

The ideal suite of professional services available from cloud providers includes outcome-based services tailor-fit to your cloud transformation circumstances, access to expert consultants with industry-recognized certification, and a host of best practices that are applicable and deployable to your implementation.

Nutanix Professional Services encompass the wide range of use cases you might encounter during your cloud journey and can bring you closer to the results you envision. In addition to having access to services that help you grasp your ideal outcomes, you should also embrace cloud professional services that go above and beyond in ensuring accelerated deployment and providing lasting education.

Choosing Services That Accelerate Deployment

Choosing services that accelerate the time between initial investment and actual deployment of cloud infrastructure is important for getting the most out of your purchase and minimizing the downtime that can otherwise occur during the cloud transformation process. These services often start with workshops that help your team understand the ins and outs of the cloud platform and the changes that will occur in the overall enterprise IT architecture.

The right service provider makes outcome-based service offerings available to ensure accelerated deployment as early as day one of your license ownership. Nutanix Professional Services include the following accelerated offerings:

Infrastructure modernization: Quickstart operations or migration to hyperconverged infrastructure
Cloud and IT automation: Automation, self-service, and governance in the private, public, or hybrid cloud
Database modernization: Quickstart operations or migration to Nutanix Database Service
Virtual desktop modernization: Quickstart, migration, and transformation toward virtual desktop infrastructure
Hybrid multicloud: Quick utilization of multicloud elasticity and on-demand capacity

FastTrack Services from Nutanix can further enable quick deployment, configuration, and realization of your cloud infrastructure capabilities. This suite of cloud professional services can further accelerate your ROI on cloud infrastructure, cloud manager, unified storage, database storage, and VDI products in the Nutanix ecosystem.

Choosing Services That Provide Education

MarketsAndMarkets reports that the global cloud computing market size was valued at USD $545.8 billion in 2022, with a projected growth to $1,240.9 billion by 2027. These sky-high figures show the value of having internal talent in your organization that understands the intricacies of modern cloud technology and has the capacity to keep up with cloud advancements in the future

An investment in education can save time and money in the long run. Outsourcing talent, while convenient and accessible, becomes less sustainable over longer periods of time.

Nutanix University Certification courses are among the education-focused cloud professional services offered to organizations operating on the Nutanix platform. Individuals who pursue this certification will learn how to successfully deploy, manage, optimize, and scale in a cloud environment and have the certification to prove it.

Flexible training options are a top criterion when choosing professional services, and Nutanix University accommodates by providing options for instruction-led group training, private training, and self-paced online training.

There is clear value in getting training not only for the team as a whole but also for each individual worker. Earning a certification or digital badge is a quick indicator of skill level, competence, and future-proof awareness of the complexity in the ever-growing cloud landscape.

Harness Award-Winning Cloud Professional Services

When it comes to first-time adoption or ongoing advancements of cloud infrastructure, having quality professional services at your disposal can make all the difference. Customer-focused services can accelerate your cloud deployment and provide lasting education to ensure you get a worthwhile return on your investment starting on day one and going well into the future.

Nutanix demonstrates the necessary commitment to customer success through a host of support and service offerings that help even the most advanced datacenters run any workload at any scale. These services start with straightforward product support but can extend to more in-depth professional services and industry-leading training according to your needs.

The bottom line is that you need state-of-the-art cloud solutions without the confusing complexity that sometimes comes with cutting-edge technology. With Nutanix cloud professional services, you gain simple solutions as well as relevant skills that simplify even the most complex problems.

Read in-depth service descriptions for various professional services offered in the Nutanix environment.

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