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Multi-cloud is here to stay, but complexity and challenges remain

Nutanix, experts in hybrid multi-cloud computing, has announced the findings of its fourth global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption.

The research showed that multi-cloud is currently the most used deployment model and adoption will jump to 64 per cent in the next three years. But the complexity of managing across cloud borders remains a major challenge for enterprises, with 87 per cent agreeing that multi-cloud success requires simpler management across mixed-cloud infrastructures. To address top challenges related to interoperability, security, cost, and data integration, 83 per cent of respondents agree that a hybrid multi-cloud model is ideal.

Rajiv Ramaswami, President and CEO at Nutanix said, “while businesses are now viewing and using IT more strategically than ever before, the complexity of multi-cloud is creating challenges that are standing in the way of cloud success.  for these complexities is giving way to a new hybrid multi-cloud model that makes cloud an operating model rather than a destination.”

Key findings from this year’s report include: 

  • Top multi-cloud challenges include managing security (49%), data integration (49%), and cost (43%) across cloud borders. While multi-cloud is the most used operating model, and the only one expected to grow, most enterprises are struggling with the reality of operating across multiple clouds, private and public.
  • The pandemic has changed how nearly all organisations operate, and multi-cloud supports this new way of working. Well over half of the respondents (61%) say they’re focused on offering more flexible work setups because of the pandemic. Multicloud offers the most agile IT environment for supporting this flexibility by distributing data to diverse geolocations for user proximity, and business continuity.
  • Application mobility is top of mind. Nearly all organisations (91%) have moved one or more applications to a new IT environment over the last 12 months. However, 80% of respondents agree that moving a workload to a new cloud environment can be costly and time-consuming. They cite security (41%) most often as the reason for the move, followed by the performance (39%), and gaining control of the application (38%). 
  • Enterprises are growing more strategic in their use of IT infrastructure. Nearly three-fourths of respondents (72%) say they believe that the IT function in their organisations is perceived as more strategic than it was a year ago. They also cite business reasons for changing their infrastructure models, such as improving remote work and collaboration (40%), supporting customers better (36%), and strengthening business continuity (35%). Additionally, they’ve begun strategically matching each workload to the infrastructure best suited to it, based on factors such as security (41%), performance (39%), and cost (31%), likely a primary driver behind the proliferation of multi-cloud. 

For the fourth consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix, surveying 1,700 IT decision-makers around the world in August and September 2021. The respondent base spanned multiple industries, business sizes, and the following geographies: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. 

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