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“ Eighty per cent of ECI respondents are planning to invest in IT modernisation , with 85 % planning to increase their investments specifically to support AI . What this year ’ s ECI reveals is that organisations need to support the technologies of tomorrow by future proofing their IT infrastructure today . Hybrid multicloud continues to emerge as the infrastructure standard of choice because of the flexibility it provides to support traditional VM and modern containerized applications and movement between clouds and on-prem .”
Key findings from this year ’ s report include :
Hybrid multicloud infrastructure deployments will become an infrastructure standard . Ninety per cent of ECI respondents are taking a “ cloud smart ” approach
Ransomware and malware attacks will remain existential threats to modern enterprises , with the cat-and-mouse game between malicious actors and enterprise security professionals set to continue throughout 2024 . Yet , data protection and recovery remain a challenge , as 71 % of ECI respondents who experienced a ransomware attack reported taking days or even weeks to restore full operations . To help address this , 78 % of organisations say they plan to increase investments in ransomware protection solutions throughout this year .
As organisations seek equilibrium driven by security and innovation , application and data movement remains a complex challenge . Enterprise workloads – including their applications and data to their infrastructure strategy – leveraging the best environment ( e . g ., data center , public cloud , edge ) for each of their applications . Given the pervasiveness of this approach hybrid and multicloud environments have become the de facto infrastructure standard . Furthermore , over 80 % of organisations believe hybrid IT environments are most beneficial to their ability to manage applications and data . This is now becoming an executive priority , with nearly half of respondents noting that implementing hybrid IT is a top priority for their CIO .
Ransomware protection is top of mind for both CXOs and practitioners but most organisations continue to struggle in the wake of attacks .
– often find their way into the IT environment which best suits their needs , whether that environment is an on-premises data center , the public cloud , a smaller edge location or a mix of all three . This diversity of application placement is part of the reason why 95 % of ECI respondents say they moved applications from one environment to another over the past year , with security and innovation as the top drivers for this movement . Enterprises should expect application and data movement to remain constant and plan infrastructure choices accordingly – emphasizing flexibility and visibility . Organisations face significant roadblocks when it comes to executing complex application migrations , with 35 % of ECI respondents saying
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