TRENDING creating the need for simple and flexible inter-cloud portability . Shifting security-related requirements , in particular , are largely fuelling the movement of applications .
Public sector organisations are eager to modernise their IT infrastructure and lay the foundation to adopt new technologies
• AI use is ramping up , though issues concerning data privacy and best practices persist . Though AI support ranked fairly low on public sector infrastructure purchasing criteria , respondents expressed high levels of interest in the technology elsewhere – 80 % of the public sector said they expect to increase their investments in AI technology in the next year . About a third ( 32 %) said that those investment increases would be “ significant .” A third ( 33 %) also said integrating with cloud-native services , such as AI , was a reason that they moved one or more application ( s ) to a different infrastructure during the past year .
• Top challenges involve multi-environment storage , operations , security and sustainability . Managing multiple IT environments creates operational challenges often related to interoperability and data management across infrastructures with dissimilar underlying technologies . When asked to name their number one data management challenge today , the greatest percentage in the public sector identified complying with data storage / usage guidelines ( 19 %) as the top factor . Increasingly , data storage strategies are driven by privacy regulations about where end user data can be stored , such as data sovereignty requirements .
For the sixth consecutive year , Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix , surveying 1,500 IT and DevOps / Platform Engineering decisionmakers around the world in December 2023 .
The respondent base spanned multiple industries , business sizes and geographies , including North and South America ; Europe , the Middle East and Africa ( EMEA ); and Asia-Pacific-Japan ( APJ ) region . p
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