Nutanix announced the public sector findings of its global 2022 Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption, including the U.S. federal government and global public education sub-sectors.
Chip George, VP of Public Sector at Nutanix
The research showed that more public sector organizations than average have adopted multicloud as a primary IT operating model, outpacing the global average. Adoption is expected to nearly double from 39% to 67% in the next three years.
Multicloud is on the rise and is now the dominant IT architecture in use worldwide, and it’s also dominant across the public sector. In fact, the global public education sub-sector reported the largest usage among all ECI respondents (69%), with adoption nearly twice the global average. The U.S. federal sub-sector is also well ahead of the average, with 47% having adopted multicloud.
However, the complexity of managing across cloud borders remains a major challenge for public sector organizations as 85% agreed that to succeed, their organizations need to simplify the management of multiple clouds. To address top challenges related to cost, security, interoperability, and data integration, 75% agree that a hybrid multicloud model, an IT operating model with multiple clouds both private and public with interoperability between, is ideal.
“The evolution to a multicloud IT infrastructure that spans a mix of private and public clouds is underway across the globe, with the public sector on the fast track,” said Chip George, VP of Public Sector at Nutanix. “This evolution requires a dedication to inherent, strong platform security to fully execute on the multicloud vision and extend capabilities from the core to the tactical edge.
Public sector organizations must look to hybrid multicloud solutions that meet security requirements while delivering visibility, manageability, and consistent policy-enforcement coupled with tight cost control across environments.”
Public sector survey respondents were asked about their current cloud challenges, how they’re running business and mission-critical applications now, and where they plan to run them in the future. Respondents were also asked about the impact of the pandemic on recent, current, and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities may change because of it.
