©2019 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved BUSINESS NEED Although often seen as an enabler of digital transformation, the public cloud doesn’t represent a one size fits all solution, as Derby City Council discovered mid-way through a migration to the public cloud. Initially seen as a way of eliminating its on-premise datacentre and associated costs, the Council’s reliance on a multitude of legacy applications meant having to go well over budget to meet required service levels in the public cloud. Technical issues also hindered the move and combined with rapid price escalation, made wholesale migration to the public cloud unaffordable. As a result, the Derby City team needed to both scale back on their public cloud deployment and at the same time, build a new on-premise infrastructure

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