EMEA enterprises see hybrid cloud as Ideal IT Model

Companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa continue to view hybrid cloud as their “ideal” IT model, according to a new report.According to the Nutanix annual Enterprise Cloud Index, while hybrid is seen as “ideal”, many companies are having difficulty bring it about as fast as they would like.Rather than reducing data centre use by 20 percent by 2019 as projected by respondents to the 2018 EMEA Enterprise Cloud Index - the latest report shows an increase of nearly 14 percent.This was accompanied by a drop in hybrid cloud use of around five percent, rather than the seven percent increase previously forecast. The net effect is for companies in EMEA to now be some six percentage points behind the Americas in hybrid cloud deployment and lag in terms of multi-cloud take-up. Despite these figures, however, companies surveyed indicated ambitious plans to bolster hybrid cloud penetration in the region from 12 percent today to 53 percent by 2024.Helping to explain the disparities, the report found mixed attitudes and less enthusiasm across EMEA when it came to the public cloud portion of the hybrid cloud equation. For example, EMEA companies chose data security and compliance as the top public cloud benefit more often (about 19 percent of the time) than the Americas and APJ regions chose any factor while, at the same time, more than half (60 percent) also saw security as a top challenge of the public cloud component.