TRENDING
The 2019 respondent base spanned multiple
industries, business sizes and the following
geographies: the Americas; Europe, the
Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and the
Asia-Pacific (APJ) region. This year’s report
illustrated that creating and executing
a cloud strategy has become a multi-
dimensional challenge.
are moving some applications off the public
cloud and back on-prem and 22% of those
users are moving five or more applications.
These moves underscore, in part, enterprises’
need for hybrid cloud’s flexibility in allowing
them to adapt their infrastructures based on
their fluctuating requirements.
At one time, a primary value proposition
associated with the public cloud was
substantial upfront capex savings. Now,
enterprises have discovered that there are
other considerations when selecting the best
cloud for the business as well and that one
size cloud strategy doesn’t fit all use cases.
Wendy M Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix
For example, while applications with
unpredictable usage may be best suited
to the public clouds offering elastic IT
resources, workloads with more predictable
characteristics can often run on-premises
at a lower cost than public cloud. Savings
are also dependent on businesses’ ability to
match each application to the appropriate
cloud service and pricing tier, and to remain
diligent about regularly reviewing service
plans and fees, which change frequently.
2. Security remains the biggest factor
impacting enterprises’ future cloud
strategies. Well over half of 2019
respondents (60%) said that the state
of security among clouds would have the
biggest influence on their cloud deployment
plans going forward. Similarly, data security
and compliance represented the top variable
(26%) in determining where an enterprise
runs a given workload.
In this ever-changing environment,
flexibility is essential and a hybrid cloud
provides this choice. Other key findings
from the report include:
1. Apps are migrating away from
the public cloud back to on-premises
infrastructures. Nearly three-quarters
(73%) of respondents reported that they
“
IN THIS EVER-
CHANGING
ENVIRONMENT,
FLEXIBILITY IS
ESSENTIAL AND
A HYBRID CLOUD
PROVIDES THIS
CHOICE.
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