However, experts say that the supply side of hybrid cloud management tools is “coming of age” in 2020, so significant improvements are Tools for managing mixed cloud environments to date have been immature or scarce. In addition, a few other issues continue to temporarily slow the pace of hybrid cloud deployments: The reasons many are foundering with deploying hybrid cloud.” Adoption Impediments It’s a big deal, so you have to be very clear on the value of running in the new environment. , you still have to customize, move data, and integrate old and new worlds until you’re ready to let go. And whether you’re re-platforming, lifting and shifting, or repurchasing “Not everything translates into the new environment. Legacy things,” says Dominic Maidment, Technology Architect at Total Gas and Power Ltd in Red Hill, Surrey, England. “If you have 20+ years of history at your business, cloud migration gets expensive, because you invest in new resources, then discover that you can’t turn off some Yet for older, established businesses, transitions don’t happen overnight. Third Annual ECI respondents indicated significant progress in establishing private clouds, decommissioning non-cloud-enabled datacenters, and overall upping their Hybrid clouds require enterprises to invest in both private and public clouds, which ultimately become integrated with common managementĪnd security policies and allow for application portability among them.
Most enterprises indicate that they’re in the process of transitioning to hybrid cloud infrastructure. It’s possible that in addition to theĪpproximately 12% shown to be running only hybrid cloud infrastructures, some other respondents may also be operating integrated hybrid cloud infrastructures alongside other infrastructure types. It should be noted that in the Third Annual ECI survey, the question was asked whether respondents were running hybrid-only environments (to the exclusion of all other types of clouds and datacenters). These issues have conspired to keep hybrid cloud deployments fairly flat to date (Figure 1).
Talent skilled in disparate cloud platforms, economic and regulatory trends, and the need to depreciate or transition legacy infrastructure. Among the reasons, discussed below, are still-maturing cloud management tools, scarcity of State of Hybrid Cloud DeploymentsĮnterprise enthusiasm for the hybrid IT model has been strong for all three research years, though most businesses still struggle to fully adopt it. Three years that ECI research has been conducted. This year, 86% of the ECI’s 3,400 respondents agreed that hybrid cloud is the “ideal IT operating model for my organization.” Concurrence with this statement has ranged from 85% to 91% of all global respondents for the Overview: AMID THE PANDEMIC, IT TEAMS PREP FOR INTEGRATED CLOUD INFRASTRUCTUREįor three years running, the majority of global IT pros surveyed for the Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) have ranked integrated private and public clouds-referred to as hybrid cloud-as their preferred IT operating model. The Third Annual ECI respondent base spanned multiple industries, business sizes, and the following geographies: the Americas Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific (APJ) region. This year, survey respondents were also asked about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on current and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities might be changing because of it. researcher Vanson Bourne surveyed 3,400 IT decision-makersĪround the world about where they’re running their business applications today, where they plan to run them in the future, what their cloud challenges are, and how their cloud initiatives stack up against other IT projects and priorities. Of respondents who currently run on-premises infrastructure have deployed or plan to deploy hyperconverged infrastructure Background and Research Goalsįor the third consecutive year, Nutanix has commissioned research to learn about the state of global enterprise cloud deployments and adoption plans.