Modern enterprises are actively seeking ways to accelerate innovation and development by driving resilience, agility, and workload consolidation from IT. This has led to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), a solution that is used as an intelligent, high-performance means for driving a business from the datacenter out to the edge.
Multicloud is a solution that is helping drive HCI. Interestingly, a recent report by research firm Vanson Bourne suggests that multicloud deployments are on the rise which, in turn, is helping drive HCI adoption.
For its study, 1,700 IT decision-makers around the world were surveyed in August and September 2021. The respondent come from multiple industries, various business sizes, and the following geographies: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Enterprises want hybrid multicloud solutions
The study showed that multicloud is the most used deployment model, and that it stands to see a 64% increase in adoption rate over the next three years. While this is certainly a positive trend, the complexity of managing across cloud borders is still a challenge for enterprises, with 87% saying that multicloud success requires simpler management across mixed-cloud infrastructures.
To address this matter, 83% of respondents feel that a hybrid multicloud model will best suit their business needs.
Additional findings from the report
Top multicloud challenges: This includes managing security (49%), data integration (49%), and cost (43%) across cloud borders. While multicloud is the most used operating model presently, and the only one expected to grow, most enterprises struggle with operating across multiple clouds, private and public.
COVID-19 has changed how nearly all organizations operate, and multicloud supports this new way of working. More than half of respondents (61%) say they’re focused on offering more flexible work setups because of the pandemic. Most organizations report that while their remote workforces might shrink or grow soon, this new operating model is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Application mobility is top of mind. Almost all organizations (91%) have moved one or more applications to a new IT environment over the last year; however, 80% of respondents say that moving a workload to a new cloud environment is costly and time-consuming. 41% say that security is most often the reason for a move, followed by performance (39%), and gaining control of the application (38%).
Enterprises are becoming increasingly strategic in their use of IT infrastructure. 72% of respondents say they believe that the IT function in their organizations is perceived as more strategic than it was a year ago. They cite business reasons for changing their infrastructure models, such as improving remote work and collaboration (40%), supporting customers better (36%), and strengthening business continuity (35%). What’s more, these companies have begun strategically matching workloads to the infrastructure best suited to it, based on factors such as security (41%), performance (39%), and cost (31%).
While HCI is well-positioned to drive IT transformation in the coming years, it appears as though multicloud will be driving HCI for the foreseeable future. For the solution provider, there is no better time than right now to introduce customers to the latest in HCI solutions, designed to modernize IT, simplify operations, and lower risk.
