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APAC RACKSPACE TECHNOLOGY SURVEY SHOWS HYBRID CLOUD AND AI INTEGRATIONAS KEY DRIVERS FOR IT INNOVATION IN 2025
Over 90 % of IT Leaders are rewriting their cloud strategies as hybrid cloud and AI take centre stage .
A new global survey of more than 1,400 IT decision-makers conducted by Rackspace Technology finds that organisations continue to shift away from a single cloud approach toward more flexible hybrid cloud environments .
Over 90 % of the APAC survey respondents report that they plan to make significant changes in their cloud strategy over the next two years . Of those respondents , 46 % said that a hybrid cloud for multi-environment deployment will be critical to their IT operations over the next 12 – 24 months .
Main reasons for APAC respondents to utilise a hybrid cloud environment include improved reliability and availability ( 72 %) followed by enhancing data security and compliance ( 56 %).
Despite the steady adoption of public clouds , IT teams are not preparing to abandon private clouds .
Over 72 % of APAC respondents stated that their organisations had considered repatriating at least a portion of their workloads from public clouds back to private clouds or on premises infrastructure , citing data security and compliance requirements ( 49 %), better integration with existing systems ( 42 %) and skill gaps or staffing limitations in managing cloud environments ( 38 %) as rationales . For those that had recently repatriated workloads , nearly 80 % of respondents reported that it had resolved those concerns .
Although the importance of cloud deployments is widely recognised , the survey reveals a significant
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