Nutanix, announced findings of its annual Enterprise Cloud Index, which show that organisations in Saudi Arabia plan to move their hybrid multicloud deployments from 7% penetration to 51% penetration in three years. They also plan to swap much of their exclusive use of on-premises IT infrastructure for hosted datacentre services, slashing on-premises infrastructure from 39% to 0% within three years, while increasing their use of hosted services by three-fold.
Enterprises in Saudi Arabia trail the global averages in mixed IT deployments but have aggressive three-year plans to catch up. Less than half of Saudi companies, 45% currently use multiple IT modes. This is substantially lower than the global average, 60%. The figures indicate that enterprises in the country are in the nascent phases of their digital transformation and cloud-migration journeys.
However, they plan to boost their mixed-IT usage to 71% within three years, just a bit short of the expected global levels for the same time frame.
“Increased infrastructure diversity, along with a heightened emphasis on data storage, management, security, and services, is driving all IT pros in Saudi to seek hybrid operations that transcend private and public infrastructure,” said Mohammed Abulhouf, Senior Director, and GM EMEA Emerging Markets at Nutanix.
Data security and backup protection are the biggest IT infrastructure criteria. When asked to name the single most important factor when making an IT infrastructure decision, respondents from Saudi Arabia chose cybersecurity, 15% and data protection, recovery, 15% most often as the top ones, in equal measure, followed closely by data sovereignty considerations, 14%.
Mixed environments create new challenges and demand for a single place to view and manage all workloads and data. Nearly all respondents across Saudi Arabia, 95%, the EMEA region, 94%, and the global ECI response pool, 94% agree that having a single platform to manage their diverse private and public infrastructures would be ideal.
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