Nutanix has revealed a rising rate of multi-cloud adoption in the healthcare sector with adoption expected to jump from 27% to 51% in the next three years.
►Sector is slower to adopt due to regulation, security and cost concerns
►Pandemic has pushed security and self-service up the agenda
The findings are detailed in the firm’s global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report. They show that while healthcare organisations seem to be in the early stages of cloud adoption (and behind the cross-industry average), adoption levels are expected to surge in line with the global trend towards use of a multiple mix of private and public clouds.
The Nutanix report found that currently, private cloud is their most common IT deployment model in 30% of healthcare organisations. Part of the reason is that the sector is highly regulated and has seen slower adoption due to security and privacy concerns. And while 90% agree that a hybrid cloud is ideal a similar proportion said simpler management is key to success.
Key findings included:
- Top challenges include integrating data across clouds (49%), managing costs (48%), and performance challenges with network overlays (45%). More than 84% say they currently lack the IT skills required to meet business demands.
- Barriers exist to migration – every healthcare organisation in the survey had moved one or more apps to a new IT environment over the last year. Yet, 80% agree that moving a workload to a new cloud can be costly and time-consuming. They cite security (48%), improved control of the application (38%), and improving performance (36%) as the main reasons to migrate.
- Focus on business continuity / disaster recovery is driving cloud adoption – improving BC/DR was cited most often as a motivating factor for future multicloud use (38%).
- Top IT priorities for the next 12 - 18 months include adopting 5G (47%) and AI/ML-based services (46%), improving BC/DR (45%), and multicloud management (44%).
- The pandemic has spurred increased IT spending in key areas on bolstering security posture (62%), implementing AI-based self-service technology (60%), and upgrading existing IT infrastructure (48%).
The research was conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Nutanix. It questioned 1,700 IT in healthcare in August and September 2021.
