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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TRENDING HYBRID CLOUD FUTURE IS BRIGHT AS 73% OF ENTERPRISES ARE MOVING APPS BACK ON PREM A new report reveals enterprises to standardise on hybrid cloud model for security and flexibility requirements. N utanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has 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. 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 www.intelligentcio.com 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. The report illustrated that creating and executing a cloud strategy has become a multi-dimensional 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 “ CLOUD COMPUTING HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF BUSINESS STRATEGY, BUT IT HAS INTRODUCED SEVERAL CHALLENGES ALONG WITH IT. INTELLIGENTCIO 17