Nutanix, an enabler in hybrid multicloud computing, has released the findings of its fifth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report which revealed that IT infrastructure is increasingly diverse, with organizations challenged with integrating data management and control.
The research indicated that nearly half (48 percent) of organizations in India leverage more than one type of IT infrastructure, including a mix of private and public clouds, multiple public clouds, or an on-premises datacenter, along with a hosted data center. This number is expected to grow by 87 percent in the 3 years, outpacing the global ECI average by 13 percent.
The greatest growth area in India is in hybrid multicloud infrastructure (private infrastructure coupled with more than one public cloud). Hybrid multicloud usage in India at present is 12 percent and is expected to increase by five-fold (63 percent) in the next 3 years. Increased infrastructure diversity, along with a heightened emphasis on data storage, management, security, and services, is driving all IT pros to seek hybrid operations that transcend private and public infrastructure.
“The findings of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index report once again showcase the rapidly evolving nature of the IT infrastructure landscape in India. As organizations adopt a hybrid multicloud approach, managing data across diverse IT environments is becoming increasingly complex. It is imperative for enterprises to streamline their data and applications across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure, and leverage a single, unified control plane for seamless management. Nutanix recognizes this need, and our commitment to providing cutting-edge hybrid multicloud solutions that enable organizations to build, operate, and govern their IT infrastructure with ease remains unwavering,” said Faiz Shakir, Managing Director – Sales, Nutanix India & SAARC.
In the past five years of conducting the ECI, respondents’ attitudes, globally, have drastically shifted toward the use of multiple IT environments. In 2018, well over half of respondents worldwide said they envisioned running all workloads exclusively in either a private cloud or the public cloud one day. Rather than working to consolidate on a particular infrastructure or IT operating model, as seemed desirable in 2018, most enterprises now see the inevitability, and even benefits, of running workloads across public cloud, on-premises and at the edge.
The goal for organizations now is to make this hybrid operating model more efficient, especially when managing IT environments across the edge to the core. The growing level of diversity in cloud deployments creates enormous complexity in managing application’s data across cloud environments. Comprehensive tools that enable organizations to provision, move, manage, monitor, and secure applications and data from a single console in a uniform manner is a growing priority for IT. Nearly all respondents worldwide (95 percent) say they’d benefit from having a single, unified control plane to manage applications and data across diverse environments.
