Hybrid Multicloud Adoption In India To Surge 5x In Next 3 Years: Report

A new report revealed that hybrid multicloud usage in India at present is 12 per cent and is expected to increase by five-fold (63 per cent) in the next three years.

The report surmised that the greatest growth area in India is in hybrid multicloud infrastructure (private infrastructure coupled with more than one public cloud).

Increased infrastructure diversity, along with a heightened emphasis on data storage, management, security and services, is driving all IT pros to seek hybrid operations that transcend private and public infrastructure, the report noted.

The Nutanix report indicated that nearly half (48 per cent) of organisations in India leverage more than one type of IT infrastructure, including a mix of private and public clouds, multiple public clouds, or an on-premises datacenter, along with a hosted data center. This number is expected to grow by 87 per cent in the next three years.

Cloud cost was considered by 57 per cent of the respondents as a challenging IT management issue while 34 per cent expressed a "very concerned" attitude about cloud costs in the context of their IT budgets for the upcoming year. In comparison, only 30 per cent of APJ and global respondents identified cost as a top IT management challenge.

The report also found that in India, 17 per cent of enterprises consider cybersecurity as the top priority when making IT infrastructure investments. This is followed by the flexibility to run workloads across different cloud infrastructures (14 per cent) and performance (12 per cent).