The adoption of hybrid multicloud environments has become imperative as organizations in the APJ region reassess their cloud strategies, said Aaron White, GM and VP, APJ Sales, Nutanix.
During its Q1 FY24, Nutanix observed three key trends across the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region that saw customers moving from public to hybrid multicloud and leveraging the potential of AI.
Data security, according to Nutanix, is one of the biggest drivers of the accelerated adoption of hybrid multicloud. Hybrid multicloud allows organizations to maintain the necessary security measures for their sensitive assets while taking advantage of the public cloud’s agility and cost-efficiency, said Aaron in a recent APJ media roundtable.
Nutanix has been quite vocal about cloud repatriation – a trend where companies move their workloads back from public clouds to on-premises or local cloud infrastructure. A 2023 Nutanix market study highlighted that over 46% organizations plan to repatriate some applications to on-premises datacenters to mitigate cloud costs in the year ahead.
“Organizations realize they must learn from past experiences with public cloud and develop a strategic plan to avoid the need for cloud repatriation. To prevent cloud repatriation, it is essential to consider the benefits and suitability of hybrid multicloud instead of following the herd back to public cloud,” Aron remarked.
He also spoke about how enterprises’ AI strategies are evolving with data security and governance taking precedence over cost in AI decision-making. Enterprise AI adoption will catalyze a wave of initiatives focused on data governance and mobility. Nutanix’s interactions with customers also reveal that many enterprises are struggling to identify the most efficient path to modernize their infrastructure to be able to support AI workloads.
“AI technologies, and growing requirements for speed and scale, are likely to bring edge strategies and core infrastructure deployment to the forefront of IT modernization,” Aaron concluded.
