Hybrid Cloud Future Bright As 73% of Enterprises Moving Apps Back on Prem
November 13 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New Report Reveals Enterprises to
Standardize on Hybrid Cloud Model for Security and Flexibility
Requirements
Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud
computing, today announced the findings of its second global
Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, which measures
enterprise progress with adopting private, hybrid and public
clouds. The new report found enterprises plan to aggressively shift
investment to hybrid cloud architectures, with respondents
reporting steady and substantial hybrid deployment plans over the
next five years. The vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85%)
selected hybrid cloud as their ideal IT operating model.
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For the second consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted
research on behalf of Nutanix to learn about the state of global
enterprise cloud deployments and adoption plans. The researcher
surveyed 2,650 IT decision-makers in 24 countries around the world
about where they’re running their business applications today,
where they plan to run them in the future, what their cloud
challenges are, and how their cloud initiatives stack up against
other IT projects and priorities. The 2019 respondent base spanned
multiple industries, business sizes, and the following geographies:
the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the
Asia-Pacific (APJ) region.
This year’s report illustrated that creating and executing a
cloud strategy has become a multidimensional challenge. At one
time, a primary value proposition associated with the public cloud
was substantial upfront capex savings. Now, enterprises have
discovered that there are other considerations when selecting the
best cloud for the business as well, and that one size cloud
strategy doesn’t fit all use cases. For example, while applications
with unpredictable usage may be best suited to the public clouds
offering elastic IT resources, workloads with more predictable
characteristics can often run on-premises at a lower cost than
public cloud. Savings are also dependent on businesses’ ability to
match each application to the appropriate cloud service and pricing
tier, and to remain diligent about regularly reviewing service
plans and fees, which change frequently.
In this ever-changing environment, flexibility is essential, and
a hybrid cloud provides this choice. Other key findings from the
report include:
- Apps are migrating away from the public cloud back to
on-premises infrastructures. Nearly three-fourths (73%) of
respondents reported that they are moving some applications off the
public cloud and back on prem, and 22% of those users are moving
five or more applications. These moves underscore, in part,
enterprises’ need for hybrid cloud’s flexibility in allowing them
to adapt their infrastructures based on their fluctuating
requirements. App mobility is critical, and more than nine in ten
(95%) respondents reported that it is essential or desirable to be
able to easily move applications between cloud environments.
- Security remains the biggest factor impacting enterprises’
future cloud strategies. Well over half of 2019 respondents
(60%) said that the state of security among clouds would have the
biggest influence on their cloud deployment plans going forward.
Similarly, data security and compliance represented the top
variable (26%) in determining where an enterprise runs a given
workload.
- IT professionals deem the hybrid cloud the most secure of
all the IT operating models. More than a quarter of respondents
(28%) picked the hybrid model as the most secure — substantially
surpassing those who chose a fully private cloud/on-prem model
(21%) and more than twice as many as those who chose traditional
(non-cloud-enabled) private data centers (13%). One reason for this
is perhaps because enterprises can select the right cloud for their
security requirements.
- Nearly a quarter (23.5%) of respondents currently aren’t
leveraging any cloud technology today. Many companies still
fall behind when it comes to enterprise cloud adoption. However,
respondents’ reported plans indicate that in one year’s time, the
number of enterprises with no cloud deployments will plummet to
6.5% and in two years’ time will drop by more than half to 3%.
Regionally, the Americas reported a slightly lower incidence of
non-cloud use (21%) compared to EMEA (25%) and APJ (24%).
- Enterprises are striving to integrate cloud computing with
their digital transformation goals. Nearly three-quarters (72%)
of 2019 respondents said digital transformation was driving their
cloud implementations, and 64% said that digital transformation was
the top business priority in their organizations.
“As organizations continue to grapple with complex digital
transformation initiatives, flexibility and security are critical
components to enable seamless and reliable cloud adoption,” said
Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix. “The enterprise has progressed
in its understanding and adoption of hybrid cloud, but there is
still work to do when it comes to reaping all of its benefits. In
the next few years, we’ll see businesses rethinking how to best
utilize hybrid cloud, including hiring for hybrid computing skills
and reskilling IT teams to keep up with emerging technologies.”
“Cloud computing has become an integral part of business
strategy, but it has introduced several challenges along with it,"
said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president of infrastructure
systems, platforms and technologies at IDC. "These include security
and application performance concerns and high cost. As the 2019
Enterprise Cloud Index report demonstrates, hybrid cloud will
continue to be the best option for enterprises, enabling them to
securely meet modernization and agility requirements for
workloads.”
To learn more about the report and findings, please download the
full “Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index 2019,” here.
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged
infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that
IT can focus on the applications and services that power their
business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility
across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run
any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost
of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver
a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application
owners a true cloud-like experience. Learn more at www.nutanix.com
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