Australian enterprises are vastly forward of their global counterparts in infrastructure modernisation and a shift to hybrid multicloud within the nation is underway, with AI and sustainability targets being the first drivers.
These are the important thing Australian findings from the sixth annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index launched in the present day.
The means to assist AI had a significantly larger affect on the infrastructure selections Australian organisations made, with 44 per cent of respondents citing this as a main driver, in contrast with 35 per cent of global respondents.
According to the analysis, this AI want led to 99 per cent of Australian respondents following a ‘cloud-smart’ infrastructure technique – leveraging one of the best setting (e.g., a personal datacentre, public cloud, or edge) for the distinctive necessities of every workload – in contrast with 90 per cent worldwide.
Aaron White, basic supervisor and vp, Nutanix APJ, mentioned this yr’s findings made it clear Australian organisations have been forward of the pack when it got here to infusing their companies with AI.
“It’s clear the interest in AI can no longer be chalked up to FOMO or hype as Australian enterprises aren’t wasting any time getting their businesses ready for the age of AI,” White mentioned. “While to the casual observer familiar with ChatGPT, it might seem that ‘AI’ is just a website you visit, but for an enterprise to become AI-ready there’s a lot of work that needs to be done – and that starts at the infrastructure level.”
With Australia’s ‘cloud-smart’ strategy properly entrenched, 100 per cent of native respondents reported shifting functions from one setting to a different over the previous yr, in contrast with 90 per cent globally.
When requested the first motive for shifting functions between environments, Australia’s AI aspirations have been once more made clear. More than half (58 per cent) of native respondents mentioned they’d shifted functions to combine with cloud-native providers reminiscent of AI and ML, making it the very best driver amongst Australian companies. In comparability, solely 40 per cent of global respondents reported migrating functions to combine with such providers.
“Australia is in pole position when it comes to enterprise AI adoption and this appears to be due to the heavy-lifting that’s been done with infrastructure modernisation,” White mentioned. “While many nations struggle with a technical skills gap, it’s more pronounced in Australia. This could be a strong motivator to implement AI as it promises to level the playing field and increase competitiveness on the world stage.”
Further key findings from this yr’s Australian outcomes embrace:
- Sustainability is entrance of thoughts: 100 per cent of Australian organisations agreed sustainability was a precedence. Furthermore, 45 per cent of Australian respondents mentioned their organisation would “significantly increase” funding in sustainability efforts and applied sciences in 2024. Infrastructure modernisation and distant work have been two of the highest sustainability initiatives targeted on by each Australian and global respondents. However, in contrast to the global common, much more Australian organisations reported “using more renewable energy sources” over the previous yr (52 per cent vs 39 per cent).
- Massive shift to hybrid multicloud underway. All global areas exhibited an analogous anticipated decline within the proportion of on-premises datacentre, non-public cloud, and hybrid cloud fashions deployed over the following few years. In Australia, the proportion of hybrid multicloud IT fashions is forecast to extend considerably, from 14 per cent in the present day to 55 per cent within the subsequent 1-3 years.
- Ransomware retaining enterprise up at evening regardless of progress: Significantly extra Australian organisations reported the flexibility to completely restore their operations following a ransomware assault in only a few hours in contrast with the global common (41 per cent vs 29 per cent). Despite this seemingly above-average outcome, 100 per cent of Australia respondents agree their organisation might make enhancements to its ransomware safety stance. Further, 90 per cent of Australian respondents believed ransomware and malware safety remained a “significant to moderate challenge” for his or her organisation to handle.
For the sixth consecutive yr, Vanson Bourne carried out analysis on behalf of Nutanix, surveying 1,500 IT and DevOps/Platform Engineering decision-makers all over the world in December 2023. The respondent base spanned a number of industries, enterprise sizes, and geographies, together with North and South America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific-Japan (APJ) area.
To be taught extra in regards to the report and findings, please obtain the complete sixth Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index, here.
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