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RAPID GENAI APPLICATION ADOPTION DRIVES NEW ERA OF APPLICATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNISATION

Nutanix study reveals that GenAI is changing organisations priorities, with security and privacy being a primary concern.

Nutanix has released the findings of its seventh annual Enterprise Cloud Index( ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption.

This year ' s report sheds light on Generative Artificial Intelligence( GenAI) adoption, investment priorities, and benefits along with key challenges organisations face to meet the demands of these emerging workloads.
As GenAI application adoption and implementation move at a blazing pace, the ECI uncovered that while the majority of organisations have already implemented a GenAI strategy, implementation targets vary significantly. Organisations are eager to leverage GenAI for productivity, automation and innovation, but they also face critical hurdles in the form of data security, compliance and IT infrastructure modernisation. Further, 90 % of respondents expect their IT costs to rise due to GenAI and modern application implementation. But promisingly, 70 % of organisations expect to make a return on their investment from GenAI projects over the next two to three years.
“ Many organisations have reached an inflection point with GenAI implementation and deployment,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix.
“ This year’ s ECI revealed key trends that we’ re hearing from customers as well, including challenges with scaling GenAI workloads from development to production, new requirements GenAI creates for data governance, privacy and visibility and integration with existing IT infrastructure. To successfully unlock ROI with GenAI projects, organisations need to take a holistic approach to modernising applications and infrastructure and embrace containerisation.”
Key findings from this year’ s report include:
• Application containerisation is the new infrastructure standard: Nearly 90 % of organisations report that at least some of their applications are now containerised and this number is expected to grow with the rapid adoption of new application workloads like GenAI. Simply put, 94 % of respondents agree that
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