Hybrid multi-cloud computing specialist Nutanix has announced the results of its sixth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global cloud adoption and related trends.
The 2024 report shows that 84% of UK respondents take a “cloud smart” stance, placing applications and workloads in the data center, multiple clouds, the network edge and wherever they think is best for them.
Research shows that in the UK, hybrid multi-cloud models will increase from 19% currently to 26% over the next three years, while the use of multiple public clouds will increase from 11% currently to 46% within one to three years, the group said. The latter figure is well ahead of the EMEA regional and global figures. The top five drivers for deployment platform selection are performance (55%), cost management (53%), data sovereignty/privacy (44%), ransomware/malware protection (33%) and flexibility (33%). Other factors include support for complex data services such as backups and snapshots, the ability to optimally deploy artificial intelligence, and resiliency.
Another key criterion is application migration support, with 85% of the audience saying they had switched application platforms in the past 12 months, citing reasons including cost, capacity management, data security, performance and innovation opportunities.
The survey also found growing interest in the role of IT in sustainability, with 55% saying remote working has enhanced measures, 44% claiming modern IT infrastructure to improve ecological outcomes, and 43% of people said compliance with sustainability measures has been a focus.
As for threats, ransomware remains a major concern, with 50% of respondents ranking it as a C-level major issue and 42% saying recovery from an attack can take days or even weeks.
Rowen Grierson, senior director and general manager, Nutanix UK&I, said: “Research shows that IT is in a state of constant change. From the threat of ransomware to the manageability and resiliency requirements of data, workloads and applications, leaders face a range of challenges. Attention-grabbing factors. The solution many seek is the ultimate flexibility of hybrid multicloud, which is a progressive and pragmatic stance, but they also need management consoles and controls to orchestrate and protect their estate.
Key findings from this year’s report include:
Over the next one to three years, the UK’s use of multiple public clouds will far exceed the global average. Its usage is expected to increase to 46% in the next 1-3 years, compared with 26% globally.
Performance and cost are the first and second drivers of infrastructure selection, above global and EMEA averages. The UK ranks data sovereignty and privacy as its third-highest priority, after performance and cost. The UK’s focus on costs is worth mentioning, especially when compared with the global and EMEA averages, which rank last.
87% of UK organizations have moved/migrated applications across environments in the past 12 months. UK IT decision-makers identified a unique set of priorities, citing “capacity issues” and “cost issues” as the top two reasons for application migration. Arguably, the UK is also a laggard in app migration. Globally and in EMEA, 95% of organizations said they had moved/migrated applications in the past 12 months. This proportion in the UK is 87%, which is 8% lower than the global and regional average. Application migration seems to be of minor importance and is performed for cost and efficiency reasons rather than security and integration related reasons.
92% of UK organizations agree that sustainability is a priority, and 67% say their investment in sustainability work and technology will increase in 2024. Similar to the EMEA average, the UK ranks remote working as a leading sustainability initiative to focus on over the past year. IT modernization is a distant second.
Only 59% of UK organizations fully recovered from ransomware attacks within hours. When looking at ransomware recovery by region, the distribution of recovery times is relatively similar, but there is a slight difference in the proportion of organizations that are able to recover within hours versus those that recover within days. The UK said the proportion of respondents who said their organization recovered from a ransomware attack within hours was significantly higher at 59%. In fact, this option has the highest incidence of any country surveyed by large margins.
For the sixth consecutive year, Nutanix commissioned a global study to understand the state of enterprise cloud deployments around the world and organizations’ largest IT infrastructure and cloud-related data management initiatives and challenges. In December 2023, British researcher Vanson Bourne conducted a survey of 1,500 IT and DevOps/Platform Engineering decision-makers around the world. The respondent base spans multiple industries, business sizes, and regions, including North and South America; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific-Japan (APJ) region.
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