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TRENDING
Aaron White, Regional Sales Director –
Middle East at Nutanix
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THE ENTERPRISE
HAS PROGRESSED
IN ITS
UNDERSTANDING
AND ADOPTION
OF HYBRID
CLOUD, BUT
THERE IS STILL
WORK TO DO.
2. Many of UAE’s repatriated apps
appear heading for private clouds
instead of traditional data centres. UAE
companies reported one of the lowest
current uses of data centres (40%), coming
in significantly below the EMEA (54%) and
global (53%) averages.
By sharp contrast, UAE was third highest
in reported usage of private cloud (45%),
trailing only Japan (60%) and Saudi
Arabia (47%).
While the UAE expects its use of private
cloud to decline over the next five years, its
use will decline more slowly than elsewhere
and will remain moderately higher (22%) in
three to five years than the EMEA regional
(16%) and global (16%) averages.
3. There’s a significant disconnect
between what UAE companies deem the
ideal IT infrastructure and what they’re
deploying today. UAE IT professionals were
almost unanimous in agreement (97%)
that hybrid cloud represents the ideal IT
operating model, topped only by China
(99%). Still, UAE respondents reported one
of the lowest penetrations of hybrid clouds in
EMEA today (7%), significantly behind the
EMEA (12%) and global (13%) averages.
4. UAE companies plan to adopt a hybrid
cloud model more slowly than other
countries. However, they expect to arrive
at a 51% penetration in three to five years,
which generally aligns with averages for
EMEA and across the world.
5. Lack of internal IT skills and retaining
qualified IT staff are top concerns for
UAE companies. UAE respondents agreed
that they lack the internal IT skills required
to meet business demands 60% of the time
and 61% agreed that they had difficulty
retaining IT talent. Both percentages were
higher than the EMEA and global averages.
Aaron White, Regional Sales Director –
Middle East at Nutanix, said: “It is clear
that hybrid cloud is the future. Hybrid cloud
capabilities constitute a growing necessity
in the dynamic, digital business climate,
in which enterprises demand the freedom
to dynamically provision and manage
applications based on business needs.
“Reaching this ideal IT operating model
will require more comprehensive hybrid
vendor solutions, as well as greater
expertise in designing, building and
operating hybrid clouds.
“As organisations continue to grapple
with complex Digital Transformation
initiatives, flexibility and security are critical
components to enable seamless and reliable
cloud adoption,” said Wendy M Pfeiffer, CIO
of Nutanix. “The enterprise has progressed in
its understanding and adoption of hybrid
cloud, but there is still work to do when
it comes to reaping all of its benefits. In
the next few years, we’ll see businesses
rethinking how to best utilise hybrid cloud,
including hiring for hybrid computing skills
and reskilling IT teams to keep up with
emerging technologies.”
Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice President
of Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and
Technologies at the IDC, said: “Cloud
computing has become an integral part
of business strategy, but it has introduced
several challenges along with it.
“These include security and application
performance concerns and high cost. As
the 2019 Enterprise Cloud Index report
demonstrates, hybrid cloud will continue to
be the best option for enterprises, enabling
them to securely meet modernisation and
agility requirements for workloads.”
To learn more about the report and findings,
download the full Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
Index 2019 at www.nutanix.com/enterprisecloud-index.
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