Nutanix research has revealed that multicloud deployments are here to stay, but enterprises are looking at hybrid multicloud formats. The findings are from the hybrid multicloud computing provider's 4th global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report*, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption.
The research has shed light on trends and patterns across the cloud landscape in Singapore, highlighting multicloud as the most commonly used deployment model currently — with adoption expected to jump to 63% in the next three years. However, the complexity of managing workloads across cloud borders remains a major challenge for enterprises, and there is a growing requirement for hybrid multicloud tools that unify and automate processes across dissimilar cloud platforms.
To address top challenges related to interoperability, security, cost and data integration, 82% of respondents agree that a hybrid multicloud infrastructure, an IT operating model with a blend of interoperable private and public cloud environments, is ideal.
Key findings from this year’s report include:
- Multicloud is the most deployed IT operating model in Singapore. More than a third of respondents from Singapore (38%) said multiple clouds, including private or public, are their most commonly used IT environment.
- Adoption of multicloud models amongst Singapore enterprises outpaced that of the Asia Pacific region (APAC) as a whole (35%) or global counterparts (36%). Moreover, multicloud market penetration is expected to increase by 25 percentage points within three years, to 63%.
- Multicloud supports remote work. At least half of all employees in 62% of Singaporean companies surveyed currently work remotely. Most organisations report that while their remote workforces may shrink or grow, they are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Multicloud offers the most agile IT environment for supporting this flexibility by distributing data to diverse geolocations for user proximity, and business continuity.
- In Singapore, the growing acceptance of public cloud is fuelling multicloud deployment. Nearly a third of respondents from Singapore (31%) said they currently use two or three public cloud providers, outpacing the global (26%) and APAC averages (26%).
According to Nutanix, three use cases that harness the public cloud are expected to drive multicloud growth in the next three years:
- Bolstering business continuity (42%) with diverse data backup and redundancy;
- Support for growing remote work requirements (39%), and
- A desire to capitalise on cloud-native technologies (39%) such as artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), which enable data analytics and operations automation.
Despite the rise of multicloud, key challenges in cross-cloud management remain, Nutanix said. Singapore respondents said data integration (53%), security (50%), and application mobility (46%) as key hurdles in multicloud management, outpacing global and regional averages.
And while multicloud is the most commonly-used operating model - and the only one expected to grow - most enterprises are struggling with the reality of operating across multiple clouds, private and public. IT leaders are realising that there is no 'one size fits all' approach to the cloud, making hybrid multicloud ideal according to majority of respondents (82%).
Application mobility is top of mind. Nearly all organisations in Singapore (99%) reported that they moved one or more applications to a new IT environment over the last 12 months. The respondents cited improved security and compliance (48%) as the top reason for the move, followed by hopes for faster app development (44%), desire to integrate with AI/ML and other cloud-native technologies (41%) and anticipated improvements in data access speeds (40%).
However, 76% of respondents remain certain that moving a workload to a new cloud environment can be costly and time-consuming.
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| Source: Nutanix document. Cover for the Enterprise Cloud Index for 2022. |
“The future of a hybrid world is here — from modes of operation to the workforce, and business agility has become mission-critical for enterprises looking to thrive in this new disruptive economy. As a result, we are seeing greater demand amongst Singapore businesses for hybrid multicloud models, prized for their agility and high levels of intercloud operability it offers.
"Ultimately, this enables businesses to align their cloud needs with strategic business priorities, streamline existing workflows and resources, enhance workforce productivity, and accelerate innovation at speed and scale,” said Ho Chye Soon, Singapore Country Manager, Nutanix.
“We expect the local demand for hybrid multicloud to continue on an upward trajectory in the coming years, alongside a growing need for platforms that seamlessly unify and automate processes across different cloud platforms and applications. This will be a key priority for Singapore enterprises as they race to gain competitive advantage and further support hybrid work productivity, and we are ready to support businesses as they chart their cloud futures on their own terms.”
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*For the fourth consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix, surveying 1,700 IT decision-makers around the world in August and September 2021. The 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 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.
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