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STUDY SHOWS HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY IS IN EARLY STAGES OF MULTI-CLOUD ADOPTION , BUT DEPLOYMENTS ARE RISING

Hybrid multi-cloud computing vendor Nutanix recently revealed the healthcare findings of its global Enterprise Cloud Index ( ECI ) survey and research report , which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption in the industry . The research showed that healthcare organisations appear to be in the early phases of cloud adoption and behind the cross-industry global respondent average .

Nutanix , a provider of hybrid multi-cloud computing , has announced the healthcare findings of its global Enterprise Cloud Index ( ECI ) survey and research report , which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption in the industry . The research showed that healthcare organisations appear to be in the early phases of cloud adoption and behind the cross-industry global respondent average . However , adoption is expected to jump from 27 % to 51 % in the next three years , in line with the global trend of evolving to a multi-cloud IT infrastructure that spans a mix of private and public clouds .

Multi-cloud is the dominant IT architecture in use worldwide , however , among healthcare ECI respondents , 30 % say private cloud is their most common IT deployment model . The healthcare industry
The healthcare industry is highly regulated and has likely been slower to embrace the public cloud as a bonafide component of their IT environments for security and privacy reasons .
is highly regulated and has likely been slower to embrace the public cloud as a bonafide component of their IT environments for security and privacy reasons . While multi-cloud adoption is trending upwards , the complexity of managing across cloud borders remains a major challenge for healthcare organisations ,
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