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• their organisation benefits from adopting cloud native applications / containers. This approach to infrastructure and application development should be considered the gold standard for delivering seamless, secure access to data across hybrid and multicloud environments.
• GenAI application adoption and implementation continue at a rapid pace: Over 80 % of organisations have already implemented a GenAI strategy with only 2 % of organisations admitting that they have not started planning their GenAI strategy. That said, implementation targets vary significantly. Most organisations believe GenAI solutions will help improve their organisation’ s levels of productivity, automation and efficiency. Meanwhile, real-world GenAI use cases gravitate towards customer support and experience solutions today. However, organisations aspire to apply GenAI solutions to cybersecurity and data protection workloads in the near future.
• GenAI adoption will challenge traditional norms for data security and privacy: 95 % of respondents agree that GenAI is changing their organisation’ s priorities, with security and privacy being a primary concern. Over 90 % of organisations say data privacy is a priority for their organisation when implementing GenAI solutions. Clearly, organisations understand that security and privacy are critical components of GenAI success. However, a staggering 95 % of respondents still believe their organisation could be doing more to secure its GenAI models and applications. Security and privacy will remain a major challenge for organisations as they seek to justify the use of emerging, GenAI-based solutions and ensure that they adhere to traditional security norms, as well as new requirements for data governance, privacy, and visibility.
• Infrastructure modernisation to support GenAI at scale: Running cloud native applications at enterprise scale requires an infrastructure that can
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