Research by Nutanix has found that 82% of UK companies intend to be using multiple clouds in the next one to three years, with 21% already using three or more and 80% naming hybrid multi-cloud as the ideal operating model for their business.
►Multi-cloud deployments are on the rise
►Enterprises looking to hybrid multi-cloud
A survey by the hybrid multi-cloud vendor also showed that more than half of UK businesses (53%) ranking multi-cloud was their most commonly used IT environment – substantially more than the rest of the EMEA region and globally. Nutanix’ fourth global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The only other country of the 14 surveyed with greater multi-cloud penetration was Brazil with 54%.
Respondents were asked about their current cloud challenges, how they’re running business applications now and where they plan to run them in the future. Respondents were also asked about the impact of the pandemic on recent, current and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities may change because of it.
Almost nine out of ten (86%) UK firms had moved applications to a different IT environment over the last 12 months. They cite cost as the biggest reason (44%), followed by security/compliance (37%) and capacity concerns (33%). However, 93% also agreed that moving a workload to a new cloud environment can be costly and time-consuming.
You can download the full version of the fourth Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index here.
