Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 54 | Page 26

TRENDING “ The THE UAE HAS ONE OF TODAY’S LOWEST PENETRATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DATA CENTRES (40%) IN THE WORLD. UAE has one of today’s lowest penetrations of traditional data centres (40%) in the world. This may actually be a positive since companies in the region will not have so far to go in decommissioning data centres in favour of more attractive IT models such as hybrid cloud. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index is based on research conducted by Vanson Bourne to learn about the state of global enterprise cloud deployments and adoption plans. The research surveyed 2,650 IT decision-makers in 24 countries around the world, exploring where organisations currently run their business applications and where they plan to run them in the future. It also questioned respondents on their cloud challenges and where their cloud initiatives sit against other IT projects and priorities. Key findings from the report include: 1. UAE companies are fully participating in the trend to repatriate public cloud workloads. Like many organisations, UAE companies have initiatives underway to move applications out of the public cloud and on to premises’ infrastructure. Far more UAE companies (92%) are repatriating applications than elsewhere in the world where the global average is 73%. 26 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com