An enterprise cloud is a unified IT operating environment that melds private cloud, public cloud and distributed cloud, providing a single point of control for managing infrastructure and applications in any cloud. The enterprise cloud delivers a consistent, high-performance and seamless experience for both cloud operators and consumers of cloud-delivered services and applications.
The enterprise cloud is a model for IT infrastructure and platform services that delivers the advantages of public cloud offerings for enterprise applications without compromising on the value provided by private datacenter environments.

Companies of all types in a wide variety of industries are adopting an Enterprise Cloud platform —including those in healthcare, retail, financial services, manufacturing, federal agencies and many more.
Within enterprises, adoption is being driven largely by IT departments looking to modernize datacenters. They’re seeking the benefits of the cloud, its services, and SLAs, along with the security and control that they’ve grown accustomed to within the datacenter. The Enterprise Cloud provides the “best of both worlds” to meet these needs. Simultaneously, business owners or app owners are adopting the Enterprise Cloud with the goal of taking their products to market quickly without being delayed by IT.
- Unified Governance models are the policy-centric instantiations of the single control plane discussed earlier in this chapter.
- Full-stack infrastructure and platform services deliver turnkey infrastructure for any app at any scale, anywhere, delivered through a combination of on-premises datacenters and public cloud offerings.
- Zero-click operations and machine intelligence deliver operational simplicity through automation and insights.
- Rapid elastic consumption allows businesses to buy and use only the IT resources they need, and non disruptively scale when demands grow enabling an OpEx model within and outside of the datacenter.
- Integrated security and governance covers the entire infrastructure stack across private and public clouds, leveraging automation to maintain a security baseline.
- Application-centric mobility lets businesses place and move applications anywhere, with no infrastructure lock-in.

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