Top 5 Cloud Strategy & Adoption Mistakes to Avoid

Nutanix
Cloud Simplified
Published in
1 min readAug 16, 2018

Organizations are rapidly adopting multi-cloud strategies, evaluating ways to foster greater agility and enable more rapid innovation. We’ve been tracking public cloud adoption and consumption of over $1 billion on an annual basis among our customers, providing a variety of interesting insights that we share in the Nutanix Annual Public Cloud Usage Report.

In conversations with many small and medium businesses (SMBs) and enterprises, we noticed that organizations often struggle with their infrastructure costs after initial cloud adoption due to lack of proper cloud strategy, planning, and governance mechanisms. Cost visibility and governance have evolved into primary challenges for organizations. This calls for a well thought-out cloud strategy.

Cloud Strategy Mistakes to Avoid

While interacting with cloud decision-makers and budget owners like Heads of Cloud Strategy, Heads of IT, CIOs, CTOs, IT managers, and CFOs to understand their pain points, we realized that many companies make similar mistakes. What follows are some of the most common mistakes that executives and managers make while moving into cloud, so you can adequately prepare for your cloud journey

Originally published at www.nutanix.com.

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Nutanix
Cloud Simplified

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