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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.
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
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THE FINDINGS
ALSO REVEALED
THAT
APPLICATION
MOBILITY ACROSS
ANY CLOUD IS A
TOP PRIORITY
FOR 97% OF
RESPONDENTS,
WITH 88%
SAYING IT WOULD
‘SOLVE A LOT OF
MY PROBLEMS.’
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 grow
by six percentage points. 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%
While enterprises are turning to hybrid cloud
to modernise IT for the digital era, given the
significant complexity that still exists today
in cross-cloud management and integration,
many enterprises are struggling to create an
effective hybrid cloud strategy. Nutanix has
outlined tips for implementing hybrid cloud. n
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PUBLIC CLOUDS
WILL THEN
ACCOUNT FOR
MORE THAN A
THIRD OF THE
REGION’S OVERALL
WORKLOADS.
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