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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.
Wendy M Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix
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 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 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.
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In this ever-changing environment,
flexibility is essential and a hybrid cloud
provides this choice. Other key findings
from the report include:
1. 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.
4. 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 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 centres (13%). One reason
for this is perhaps because enterprises
can select the right cloud for their
security requirements.
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