New Global IT Research Report Shows Public Cloud Only is not a Panacea; 91% State Hybrid Cloud is Ideal IT Model
November 15 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Research Suggests Cloud Interoperability and
App Mobility Outrank Cost and Security for Primary Hybrid Cloud
Benefits
Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud
computing, today announced the findings of its first ever global
Enterprise Cloud Index, measuring enterprise plans for adopting
private, hybrid and public clouds.* The new report found
enterprises plan to increase hybrid cloud usage, with 91% stating
hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model, but only 18% stating they have
that model today. The findings also revealed that application
mobility across any cloud is a top priority for 97% of respondents
– with 88% of respondents saying it would “solve a lot of my
problems.” Additionally, the report found public cloud is not a
panacea; IT decision makers ranked matching applications to the
right cloud environment as a critical capability, and 35% of
organizations using public clouds overspent their annual budget.
When asked to rank the primary benefits of hybrid cloud,
interoperability between cloud types (23%) and the ability to move
applications back and forth between clouds (16%) outranked cost
(6%) and security (5%) as the primary benefits.
Nutanix commissioned Vanson Bourne to survey IT decision makers
about where they are running their business applications today,
where they plan to run them in the future, challenges in setting up
their cloud environments and how their cloud initiatives stack up
against other IT projects and priorities. The survey resulted in
approximately 2,300 respondents from multiple industries, business
sizes and geographies in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East,
Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) regions.
In roles centered on agility and digital transformation, IT
teams understand that runtime environments for enterprise apps
change constantly. Respondents indicated a need for greater
orchestration and application mobility across cloud environments,
as they seek flexibility to move apps to the “right” cloud on a
more dynamic basis. In addition, shadow IT practices that
circumvent enterprise IT teams are posing a significant challenge
to forecasting and controlling public cloud spend with well over
half of respondents (57%) reporting one or more incidents of shadow
IT.
Other key findings of the report include:
- Hybrid cloud better addresses
business needs over single public cloud, including the price
tag: 87% of respondents said that hybrid cloud as an IT trend
is having a positive impact on their businesses, and more hybrid
cloud users reported all their needs were being met (49%) compared
to single public cloud users (37%). Furthermore, organizations that
use public cloud spend 26% of their annual IT budget on public
cloud. Perhaps most striking is the fact that only 6% using public
cloud came in under budget, while nearly six times as many (35%)
overspent in their use of public cloud resources
- Security is top of mind for
determining workloads: 71% of respondents surveyed for the
report ranked data security and regulatory compliance as the top
factor in determining where to provision their workloads. This was
followed by performance at 62%, ease of management at 53%, and cost
at 52%.
- App developers today are
circumventing IT: 57% of respondents said their developers are
circumventing IT when it comes to deciding where applications run,
putting the organization at potential risk.
- Finding hybrid IT talent is
difficult: With clear benefits to a hybrid model, respondents
say scarcity of hybrid experts is a challenge, with 54% claiming
talent retention is part of the problem.
- EMEA is expected to surpass the
Americas with hybrid cloud adoption: Regionally, the Americas
reported greater use of hybrid clouds now (22%) and within 12
months’ time (31%). However, the two-year outlook has EMEA (43%)
surpassing the Americas’ hybrid plans (39%) and APJ (39%) catching
up.
“As enterprises demand stronger application mobility and
interoperability, they are increasingly choosing hybrid cloud
infrastructure,” said Ben Gibson, chief marketing officer for
Nutanix. “While the advent of public cloud has increased IT
efficiency in certain areas, hybrid cloud capabilities are the next
step in providing the freedom to dynamically provision and manage
applications based on business needs. However, the findings of this
study reveal an important gap in the market: organizations need IT
talent to manage their hybrid cloud models, especially in the next
12 to 24 months.”
To learn more about the report and findings, please download the
full “Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index 2018”, here.
*For the purposes of this study, hybrid cloud “describes the
combined use of at least one private cloud and at least one public
cloud service, with some degree of integration between the two
cloud environments.”
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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