Nutanix report says, organizations want a single hybrid multi cloud platform to run applications and manage data across diverse IT environments.
Nutanix releases the findings of its fifth global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report. The study measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year’s ECI showed that IT infrastructure is increasingly diverse with organizations challenged with integrating data management and control.
The research showed that the majority of IT teams leverage more than one IT infrastructure, a trend that’s expected to intensify in the future, but struggle with visibility of data across environments with only 40% reporting complete visibility into where their data resides.
“In the coming years, there will be hundreds of millions of applications created, which will generate unprecedented amounts of data. Organizations are grappling with current application and data management across the edge, different clouds and in the core. What this year’s ECI shows and what we’re hearing from customers is that there’s a need in the market for a cloud operating model to help build, operate, use, and govern a hybrid multicloud to support all types of applications – starting today and planning for tomorrow,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix.
In the past five years of conducting the ECI, respondents’ attitudes have drastically shifted toward the use of multiple IT environments. In 2018, well over half of respondents said they envisioned running all workloads exclusively in either a private cloud or the public cloud one day. Rather than working to consolidate on a particular infrastructure or IT operating model, as seemed desirable in 2018, most enterprises now see the inevitability, and even benefits, of running workloads across public cloud, on-premises and at the edge.
The goal for organizations now is to make this hybrid operating model more efficient, especially when managing IT environments across the edge to the core. Comprehensive tools that allow organizations to provision, move, manage, monitor, and secure applications and data from a single console in a uniform manner is a growing priority for IT. Nearly all respondents say they’d benefit from having a single, unified control plane to manage applications and data across diverse environments.
The study found, Data security and management considerations drive IT infrastructure choices. Data is driving infrastructure decisions for enterprises, with data security, protection and recovery, and sovereignty topping the list of key drivers. However, visibility is a growing challenge. While 94% of respondents agree that having full visibility is important, only 40% of ECI respondents report having complete visibility into where their data resides.
Nearly all respondents (96%) have begun using open-source Kubernetes orchestration. But they cite designing and configuring the underlying infrastructure, storage, and database services as among the top challenges they continue to face with their Kubernetes deployments.
“It is clear from the ECI survey that IT infrastructures are growing increasingly diverse. Adoption of the hybrid multicloud model, which constitutes a private cloud on-premises or at the edge plus multiple public cloud platforms, is expected to more than triple in the coming three years. Organizations in the Middle East will undoubtedly set themselves up for success when planning a cloud strategy by implementing a single, hybrid, multicloud platform to run applications and manage data across diverse IT environments,” commented Mohammed Abulhouf, Senior Director & GM EMEA Emerging Markets, Nutanix.
For the fifth consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix, surveying 1,450 IT decision-makers around the world in December 2022 and January 2023. The respondent base spanned multiple industries, business sizes, and the following geographies: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
