Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031
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Similarly, the airport’s CCTV operations – via services delivered from Civica and using Sense AI for behaviour recognition – are also hybridised, in part for reasons of compliance. Meanwhile, the possibility exists for more general workloads, such as those now hosted and stored on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure, to be burst out to the cloud if needed, although it’s more cost-effective to keep things on-site. And while the capability to burst out to the Nutanix Xi cloud and add compute and/or storage is there, Roche said there had been “no requirement for it so far, but we can do it if we need to and it doesn’t take long to set up”. The hybrid cloud model promises a lot, but enterprises really need to take their time when working out what applications and workloads to run where – or they will find themselves on a hiding to nothing. “These are legacy applications that can’t burst out to the cloud currently, and they are effectively ‘air-gapped’ from the internet, but we’d like to find ways to provide a virtualisation layer that potentially made them more portable,” he said.