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Reducing consumption and improving sustainability: Introduction

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If you’ve already deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform and migrated your workloads to it, congratulations!  You’re already using one of the most, if not the most, efficient data center technologies available to enterprise IT organizations to reduce power, cooling, physical footprint and manual effort.

But what can you do next to further reduce power consumption? In this blog series, we are examining 7 strategies for how you can squeeze the most out of your platform, reduce power consumption and improve your organization’s sustainability metrics:

Series Contents

  1. Measure: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” How and where to measure,  create a baseline and start reducing.
  2. Take only what you need: Accurately gather requirements, size environments and minimize waste.
  3. Use what you take… efficiently: Use Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) features, including cost governance and AIOps to optimize demand and reduce consumption.
  4. Scale to new heights… and depths: Scale clusters up and down and achieve some of the biggest reductions by turning hardware off when it’s not needed.
  5. Cloud Bursting: Use Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for environments on demand, as and when you need them.
  6. Move more to HCI: Advances in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and hypervisor technology mean you can lose those inefficient physical servers and 3 tier environments like never before!
  7. Multi-Use Platforms: Use spare resources to get the most from your platform.

Not everyone will be able to implement all of these and they probably don’t cover everything you should or could do. But the simplicity of the Nutanix Cloud Platform should allow organizations to achieve more than with disparately managed systems and with less manual effort.

But with an increased focus on sustainability and high energy prices persisting in many parts of the world, IT departments are again being asked to drive further efficiencies, all whilst delivering more applications than ever before. This puts IT at the center of a sustainability storm and many IT departments are coming to Nutanix asking for help.  As such, we hope that these strategies are not only useful but act as a starting point so that with the help of the community we can come up with many more. Please join the Nutanix Next Community to further the discussion and give us your thoughts!

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