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Nutanix announces findings
of annual global Enterprise
Cloud Index
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utanix, a leader in enterprise
cloud computing, has announced
the findings of its first annual
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. In South Africa, the results compared
strongly with the rest of the world, with
a total of 93% of the local respondents
agreeing that hybrid cloud is the ideal future
IT model, although only 15% responding
that they have this model in play.
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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’.
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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 organisations using public clouds
overspent their annual budget. In South
Africa this figure was 41% – a fair bit higher
that its global counterparts – highlighting
that cloud cost management remains a
problem locally.
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. 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
with the exact figure stating the same
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for South Africa, and more hybrid cloud
users reported all their needs were
being met (49%) compared to single
public cloud users (37%). Furthermore,
organisations that use public cloud
spend 26% of their annual IT budget
on public cloud and 21% in South
Africa. Perhaps most striking is the fact
that only 6% using public cloud came
in under budget with an average of 8%
in South Africa, while nearly six times as
many (35%) overspent in their use of
public cloud resources with a staggering
41% locally.
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, locally the figures were almost
the same at 72%. This was followed by
performance at 62% (58% locally), ease
of management at 53% (60% locally),
and cost at 52% which differed locally
weighing in at 34%.
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 organisation at potential
risk with this number even higher in South
Africa at 77%, placing the microscope on
Shadow IT.
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, locally
this was higher at 64%.
EMEA is expected to surpass the Americas
with hybrid cloud adoption: Regionally,
the Americas reported greater use of
hybrid clouds now (22%) with South
Africa trailing (15%) and within 12
months’ time (31% global average) with
local respondents at only 18%. However,
the two-year outlook has EMEA (43%)
surpassing the Americas’ hybrid plans
(39%) and APJ (39%) catching up.
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