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Nutanix report finds AI is driving rapid container adoption while Shadow IT creates risks
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, has announced the Australian findings of its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index( ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year’ s report looked closely at the challenges IT local executives face as they navigate the rapid increase of AI use and need for application and infrastructure modernisation in the enterprise.
The rapid rise of AI adoption in the enterprise over the last year is forcing a wave of infrastructure modernisation, as companies race to build and run applications more efficiently. In fact, containers have become a core component of the enterprise application strategy with 90 % of Australian respondents confirming AI is accelerating their adoption of containers to improve speed, reliability and scalability.
“ It is clear Australian organisations are ready to embrace AI, but this requires resilient, dependable and well-governed infrastructure. Containerisation has emerged as a fundamental pillar in local AI and application strategies, but broader adoption requires a reimagining of the underlying infrastructure,” said Michael Alp, Managing Director for A / NZ at Nutanix.“ Rather than manage a two-speed infrastructure stack, a common operating environment to manage both containerised and traditional workloads would address key concerns like shadow IT and data sovereignty.”
Zscaler and Bharti Airtel announce launch of AI & Cyber Threat Research Center
Zscaler, a leader in cloud security, in partnership with Bharti Airtel( Airtel), one of India’ s largest telecommunication service providers, has announced the launch of the AI & Cyber Threat Research Center – India. This multi-stakeholder digital initiative is dedicated to advancing national cyber resilience, protecting sectors, industries and assets that are essential to India’ s economic and national security, such as telecommunications, banking and energy, as well as digital users and accelerating trusted AI adoption across India’ s rapidly expanding digital ecosystem.
India has long been a key hub for Zscaler’ s technology innovation and cyber research, with a significant share of Zscaler’ s research talent based in the country. The research centre will serve as an expansion of Zscaler’ s operations into a national platform for collaboration between the private sector, public sector, academia and the government. The centre is designed‘ In India, For India’, with the goal of strengthening the nation’ s cyber defences and building a future-ready talent pipeline to support India’ s progress towards Viksit Bharat and a peaceful, secure and digitally self-reliant future.
India is in the midst of a generational Digital Transformation, building systems not at enterprise scale, but at population scale across critical sectors – dramatically expanding the national attack surface. At the same time, the threat landscape is evolving at machine speed, with nation state and financially motivated attackers increasingly leveraging AI to probe, target and weaponise vulnerabilities in minutes. Zscaler’ s research arm, ThreatLabz India, has observed millions of infiltration attempts each month.
As threats grow in sophistication, traditional perimeterbased security models are no longer adequate and disruptions to essential services can threaten national economic stability – making secure-by-design foundations and a modern architectural shift imperative to protect national digital systems in an increasingly borderless, AIenabled environment.
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