UAE businesses keen to embrace hybrid cloud: report

UAE businesses keen to embrace hybrid cloud: report

More than a third (35 per cent) of businesses in the UAE are running private cloud infrastructure model, a new report commissioned by Nutanix reveals.

The survey, the Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI), says UAE is tied with Australia and Italy for having the largest penetration of private cloud of all companies ECI polled worldwide. Private cloud is a component of the flexible hybrid cloud model, which 83 per cent of respondents in the UAE agree is the ideal IT operating model going forward.

The UAE appears to have done a reasonable job of paring down their use of legacy data centre-only environments, reporting below-average penetration of 15 per cent while the country is right in line with averages for hybrid cloud adoption (just 10 per cent penetration).

Over the next five years, respondents in the UAE plan to reduce all IT models in use except for hybrid cloud, which they expect to grow significantly. Hybrid cloud/ multi-cloud will account for 45 per cent of new deployments in the same time frame, the report shows.

Security, privacy, and compliance strengths together represent the number one deciding factor when considering new IT deployments. This was agreed by 26 per cent of UAE respondents.