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Study shows healthcare sector lags behind in hybrid multi-cloud adoption but growth expected
Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multicloud computing , has unveiled the healthcare industry findings of its Enterprise Cloud Index ( ECI ) study , which shows progress in cloud adoption . According to the research , companies in the healthcare sector lag behind the overall average for other industries ; however , they are expected to grow from 53 % to 74 % over the next three years , in line with the global trend towards multi-cloud IT infrastructures , which include a mix of private and public clouds .
Hybrid multi-cloud is also the operating model with the highest expected growth among all companies surveyed in the ECI . Half of the percentage of respondents in the healthcare sector ( 6 %), compared to the overall , cross-industry response ( 12 %), have adopted the hybrid multi-cloud model . healthcare respondents cited cloud cost control as a challenge in managing their current IT infrastructure and more than a third ( 36 %) cited it as a ‘ significant ’ challenge .
Mixed environments create new challenges and require a single place to manage all workloads and data . A large proportion ( 96 %) of healthcare organisations agree that ideally , they should have a single platform to manage their different public and private infrastructures . As a result , the majority of healthcare companies surveyed cited Disaster Recovery ( 42 %) as the main challenge in managing mixed infrastructures . This is followed by visibility of where data is located ( 41 %), data analysis and orchestration ( 40 %) and data storage costs ( 40 %).
Application mobility comes in first place . All healthcare organisations have moved one or more applications to a new IT environment in the last 12 months . Security and sustainability ( 40 % both ) are cited as the most frequent reason for such a move .
“ It is clear from the report that hybrid multicloud will be the IT infrastructure model of choice for healthcare providers in future . Any conversation around how the hybrid infrastructure is evolving in an organisation should include new and emerging technology such as AI , Machine Learning and Edge Computing ,” said Mohammed Abulhouf , Senior Director and GM EMEA Emerging Markets at Nutanix . p
However , those in the healthcare sector expect to increase hybrid multi-cloud deployments by more than seven times ( 38 %) over the next three years , reaching a penetration of 44 %. In addition , some healthcare companies plan to start using multiple public clouds ( multiclouds ) as a single IT infrastructure , increasing the use of this model from the current 0 % to 8 % by 2026 . Respondents were asked about the cloud challenges they are facing , how they run business applications and where they plan to do so in the future . Below are the key findings of the study :
Cybersecurity is the main driver for investment in IT infrastructure . Cybersecurity was cited by 13 % of respondents as the main driver driving their IT infrastructure purchase decisions , followed by data sovereignty ( 12 %) and cloud and on-premise execution flexibility ( 9 %). Costs were cited by only 4 % of respondents although the majority of respondents put cost control at the top of their list of challenges . In fact , 86 % of
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