INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Middle East outpaces global and
EMEA averages in deployment of
hybrid clouds
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A new global IT
research report from
Nutanix suggests cloud
interoperability and app
mobility outrank cost and
security for primary hybrid
cloud benefits; public cloud
only is not a panacea; and
91% state hybrid cloud is
an ideal IT model.
N
utanix, a leader in enterprise cloud
computing, has announced the
findings of its first annual global
Enterprise Cloud Index, measuring enterprise
plans for adopting private, hybrid and public
clouds. The new report found enterprises
plan to increase hybrid cloud usage, with
91% stating hybrid cloud as the ideal IT
model, but only 18% stating they have that
model today.
The findings also revealed that application
mobility across any cloud is a top priority
for 97% of respondents – with 88% of
respondents saying it would ‘solve a lot of
my problems.’
Key Findings from the Middle East
• The Middle East runs slightly fewer
workloads in traditional data centres and
outpaces the global and EMEA regional
averages in its deployment of hybrid
clouds, with 22% penetration reported as
compared to the global average of 19%
and EMEA average of 17%.
• Today, the Middle East runs half (50%) of
its workloads in private and hybrid clouds.
However, in two years’ time, the region
indicates plans to decrease its traditional
data centre workloads by more than half,
drop its use of private clouds by 7% and
increase hybrid cloud usage by the same
amount. It also plans to increase its use
of public cloud services by up to 10%.
• The Middle East ranks data security and
compliance as the top benefit of the
public cloud and as the top criteria for
where to run its workloads, even more
often than its peers in other regions
Those priorities are followed by cost and
performance, values that fall in line with
responses from the rest of the world.
• Public cloud use shows the most growth in
the Middle East over the next two years,
where use of a single public cloud will
grow by 10 percentage points and use
of multiple public clouds will also grow.
Public clouds will then account for more
than a third (36%) of the region’s overall
workloads, followed by hybrid clouds at
29%, and private clouds and traditional
data centres, collectively at 35%.
Nutanix commissioned Vanson Bourne to
survey IT decision makers about where
they are running their business applications
today, where they plan to run them in
the future, challenges in setting up their
cloud environments and how their cloud
initiatives stack up against other IT
projects and priorities. The survey resulted
in approximately 2,300 respondents from
multiple industries, business sizes and
geographies in the Americas, Europe, the
Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific
and Japan (APJ) regions. n
Aaron White, regional
director, Middle East
at Nutanix
Additionally, the report found public cloud
is not a panacea; IT decision makers ranked
matching applications to the right cloud
environment as a critical capability, and
35% of organisations using public clouds
overspent their annual budget.
When asked to rank the primary benefits
of hybrid cloud, interoperability between
cloud types (23%) and the ability to move
applications back and forth between clouds
(16%) outranked cost (6%) and security
(5%) as the primary benefits.
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