Organisations are struggling to integrate, manage and control their data due to increasingly complex IT environments, according to new research.
Nutanix’s latest Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) shows most IT teams leverage more than one IT infrastructure but struggle with visibility of data across environments with only 40 percent reporting complete visibility into where their data resides.
“In the coming years, there will be hundreds of millions of applications created, which will generate unprecedented amounts of data,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, product and solutions marketing at Nutanix. “Organisations are grappling with current application and data management across the edge, different clouds and in the core. What this year’s ECI shows and what we’re hearing from customers is that there’s a need in the market for a cloud operating model to help build, operate, use, and govern a hybrid multicloud to support all types of applications – starting today and planning for tomorrow.”
Key findings
Sixty percent of IT teams leverage more than one IT infrastructure, whether it is a mix of private and public clouds, multiple public clouds, or an on premise datacentre along with a hosted datacentre. That number is expected to grow to nearly three quarters (74 percent) in the near future. However, this leads to challenges and 94 percent say they’d benefit from having a single place to manage applications and data across diverse environments
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Data is driving infrastructure decisions for enterprises, with data security, protection and recovery, and sovereignty topping the list of key drivers. However, visibility is a growing challenge. While 94 percent of respondents agree that having full visibility is important, only 40 percent of ECI respondents report having complete visibility into where their data resides.
Cloud cost control ranks as a top IT management challenge. Among respondents, 85 percent consider cloud cost a challenging IT management issue, and more than a third (34 percent) rank it a “significant” challenge. Specifically, application migration across clouds is currently a pain point for organisations with 86 percent of respondents agreeing that moving applications among environments can be complex and costly. Additionally, nearly half of respondents (46 percent) plan to repatriate some applications to on-premises datacentres to mitigate cloud costs in the year ahead.
Nearly all respondents (96 percent) have begun using open-source Kubernetes orchestration. But they cite designing and configuring the underlying infrastructure, storage, and database services as among the top challenges they continue to face with their Kubernetes deployments.
Additionally, sustainability is now an IT priority. Nearly all (92 percent) respondents agree that sustainability is more important to their organisation than it was a year ago. This shift in priorities is primarily driven by corporate Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives (63 percent), supply chain disruptions (59 percent), and customers’ purchasing decisions (48 percent).
