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Rajiv Ramaswami , President and CEO at Nutanix
This year , survey respondents were asked about their current cloud challenges , how they ’ re running business applications now and where they plan to run them in the future . Respondents were also asked about the impact of the pandemic on recent , current , and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities may change because of it .
Key findings from this year ’ s report include :
• Top multi-cloud challenges include managing security ( 49 %), data integration ( 49 %) and cost ( 43 %) across cloud borders . While multi-cloud is the most commonly used operating model , and the only one expected to grow , most enterprises are struggling with the reality of operating across multiple clouds , private and public . This reality is not going away , and more and more IT leaders realize that there is no one-size fits all approach to the cloud , making hybrid multi-cloud , an IT operating model with multiple clouds both private and public with interoperability between them , ideal according to the majority of respondents .
• The pandemic has changed how nearly all organizations operate , and multi-cloud supports this new way of working . Well over half of respondents ( 61 %) say they ’ re focused on offering more flexible work setups because of the pandemic . Most organizations report that while their remote workforces may shrink or grow , they are here to stay for the foreseeable future . Multi-cloud offers the most agile IT environment for supporting this flexibility by distributing data to diverse geolocations for user proximity and Business Continuity .
• Application mobility is top of mind . Nearly all organizations ( 91 %) have moved one or more applications to a new IT environment over the last 12 months . However , 80 % of respondents agree that moving a workload to a new cloud environment can be costly and time-consuming . They cite security
While businesses are now viewing and using IT more strategically than ever before , the complexity of multicloud is creating challenges that are standing in the way of cloud success .
( 41 %) most often as the reason for the move , followed by performance ( 39 %), and gaining control of the application ( 38 %).
For the fourth consecutive year , Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix , surveying 1,700 IT decision-makers around the world in August and September 2021 . The respondent base spanned the following geographies : the Americas ; Europe , the Middle East and Africa ( EMEA ); and the Asia Pacific Japan ( APJ ) region . p
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