Nuanix research has found that more than half of UK respondents have a multi-cloud IT environment, substantially more than the rest of the EMEA region and globally.
Continuing this trend, 82 percent of UK respondents said they intend to be using multiple clouds in the next one to three years, with 21 percent already using three or more public clouds and 80 per cent naming hybrid multi-cloud as the ideal operating model for their business.
Survey respondents were asked about their current cloud challenges, how they’re running business applications now and where they plan to run them in the future. Respondents were also asked about the impact of the pandemic on recent, current and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities may change because of it.
Nutanix General Manager Alan Campbell, said: “UK companies are leading the global pack in deploying multi-cloud environments that span a mix of private and public clouds while acknowledging the potential hurdles with multi-cloud management, security and application mobility as they ramp up adoption.” He said:
“These concerns represent an urgency for cloud-agnostic tools that provide unified visibility, security and control of an entire hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure as the vast majority of UK businesses now cite this as the optimal operating model for their businesses.”
More UK respondents (82 percent) said they intend to be using multiple clouds in the next one to three years than global respondents (64 percent) and those in other EMEA countries (65 percent). Just over one in five UK respondents said they’re already using three or more public clouds, with more than a third expecting to be using three or more public clouds within the next three years.
Application mobility is a cornerstone of multicloud strategies, with cost driving the movement in the UK. Adhering to a “cloud smart” approach of continuous workload optimisation requires enterprises to move apps among infrastructures as costs, IT resource demands, and business goals change.
Most UK respondents (86 per cent) said they have moved one or more applications to a different IT environment over the last 12 months. They cite cost as the biggest reason (44 percent), followed by security/compliance (37 percent) and capacity concerns (33 percent). Other respondent groups, by contrast, cited security and compliance most often as the impetus in relocating an application.
