Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 54 | Page 25

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TRENDING UAE ENTERPRISES PLAN TO DECREASE USE OF TRADITIONAL DATA CENTRES The 2019 Enterprise Cloud Index Report from Nutanix reveals hybrid cloud adoption by companies in UAE will increase from the current 7% to 51% in three to five years. Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced the UAE-specific findings of its annual Enterprise Cloud Index. The latest (2019) Index shows that the majority of enterprises in the United Arab Emirates (97%) agree that the hybrid cloud model, which will ultimately afford dynamic choice about where to run each workload, is the ideal IT environment going forward and that it is also viewed as the most secure option. UAE, though, has one of the lowest percentages of hybrid cloud usage today and its projections of hybrid cloud growth 24 months out lag EMEA and global expectations. UAE respondents, however, report plans to catch up with the rest of the world within three to five years, when they project hybrid cloud penetration of 51% – well in line with what companies in other countries expect to be running at that time. Perhaps as an interim step to hybrid cloud, UAE companies currently deploy far more workloads and applications on private cloud than any other platform and do so more than most other countries. “ UAE COMPANIES CURRENTLY DEPLOY FAR MORE WORKLOADS AND APPLICATIONS ON PRIVATE CLOUD THAN ANY OTHER PLATFORM. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 25