Nutanixa hybrid multicloud computing company, has released the findings of its fifth global research report Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI), in which he analyzes how companies have been adapting to the cloud. 94% of the business leaders surveyed state that they use a unified platform to be able to manage all your applications and data from IT environments.
Most IT departments work with multiple IT infrastructures, yet only 40% are able to see where that data resides. As the years go by, new applications are being created, and with it, new data fabrics at the edge, various cloud and on-core models. This situation causes unprecedented chaos and tension among managers who only have one solution; a hybrid multicloud that supports all types of planning.
The trend has changed drastically, denoting that the pandemic has changed the mentality of the IT departments of companies. Five years after the first study, they now see the need create a public cloud in environments on-premises or at the edge to be able to cope with the enormous workloads they face.
The objective of the organizations is to foster the promotion of an efficient hybrid operating model to be able to manage IT environments from the edge or the core. The cloud continues to deliver many diverse environments and unprecedentedly complex data management. The desire now is to merge all that battery of tools that allow you to move, manage and protect applications from a single device to control several environments simultaneously.
Main conclusions of the report
Nutanix, aware of the very complex situation that the business fabric is going through as it has various types of IT infrastructure, determines that the ideal would be a single platform, suppressing the plurality of public or private clouds or on-premises data centers. It is a conclusion drawn from the nearly 1,500 respondents from different industries spread across areas of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and America.
The forecasts are not rosy at all, since it is expected that the figure will increase by 74% in the near future, in such a way that the solution of a single, unified place to manage applications and data across diverse environments is the ideal one.
Another important insight that Nutanix takes from all of this is that data security and management efforts drive IT infrastructure choices. The main challenge that organizations face is none other than ensure the security, protection and recovery of data.
However, in order to undertake this task, it is very important to know first-hand where the data is stored. The negative note is that 94% of those surveyed assure that they do not know the exact place where they are, how to recover them or how to modify them if necessary.
Likewise, companies are concerned controlling cloud costs, which continues to be for 85% an important challenge in IT management. The migration of applications between clouds It is a really complex and very expensive operation for companies in the sector that are facing an unprecedented economic crisis. To this is added that almost half, 46%, are considering repatriating some applications to local data centers to reduce cloud costs for next year.
Something that almost all respondents agree on is the use of open source Kubernetes orchestration. However, the design and configuration of the base infrastructure, storage and database services remain challenges that must be addressed urgently.
For the end we leave the sustainability, a factor that worries the vast majority of respondents excessively. This change is driven by new environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, supply chain disruptions and customer buying decisions, dramatically transforming the corporate environmental policy.
