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SECURITY IS SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE
VERY SERIOUSLY. IT’S NOT AN ADD-ON
THAT WE ADD TO OUR SOLUTION.
to offer not only the performance that they
need but also to maintain the compliance
that is required.
How would delivering an
enterprise cloud platform for
a healthcare group differ from
doing it for, say, a retail group?
I mean from a high level it might sound
the same but as you can imagine the level
of compliance that is required around
healthcare is much more stringent than
anything else because it deals with very
critical personal information.
How do you ensure security?
Security is something that we take very
seriously. It’s not an add-on that we add to
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our solution. From the design phases any
software engineer that is touching code in
Nutanix is responsible for writing secure code
but also writing use cases that are used to test
the security. And also the way we maintain
security in the platform is by automating it so
we make sure that every security check that
needs to be done is audited by the system
itself on a regular basis to close down any
hole that might be open.
And what I mean by this is, it’s typical
in an IT environment that when you’re
troubleshooting something you will go
and open this port to test this and open
that port to test that and that’s how in
IT environments a lot of things happen,
because people open doors but then they
don’t close them behind them and they stay
like this.
FEATURE: CLOUD
So the way we deal with this is our system is
constantly auditing itself to make sure that
all those things are set up.
How do you see the
development of enterprise
cloud over the next couple
of years?
It’s difficult to say where it’s going. I can
share a bit of the vision that we have.
The vision that we have is one where you will
be able to deal with private cloud and public
cloud in a homogeneous way.
So you basically treat any of this as
infrastructure and you place your
applications, you place your workloads,
wherever it suits you better so you can have
criteria of compliance and criteria of costs.
Whatever your criteria is, you will be able to
decide where to place each application so
it’s no longer a matter of ‘which cloud am I
going to partner with?’
It’s more ‘which cloud is better suited to run
the specific application?’ and being able to
manage all of this in a homogeneous way. n
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