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Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multi-cloud computing announced the findings of its seventh annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The 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. GenAI application adoption 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.  Data governance, privacy, and visibility “Many organisations have reached an inflection point with GenAI implementation and deployment,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing at 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 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 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 support the necessary requirements including security, data integrity and resilience. Emerging GenAI applications are no exception to this rule. Almost all respondents (98%) face challenges when it comes to scaling GenAI workloads from development to production. In fact, the #1 challenge organisations face when scaling GenAI workloads from development into production is integration with existing IT infrastructure. As a result, IT Infrastructure was chosen as the #1 area of investment needed to support GenAI. GenAI solution adoption requires changes to technology and people. 52% of respondents say their organisation needs to invest in IT training to support GenAI. Similarly, 48% of respondents believe their organisation needs to hire new IT talent to support GenAI. There is no denying organisations face acute skills shortages and competition for GenAI-related talent. The good news? Many teams will embrace the challenge to adopt AI-related competencies and skills organically, as part of normal work. The survey shows that 53% of respondents believe advancements in GenAI will provide them with an opportunity to become an AI expert. Global research study For the seventh consecutive year, Nutanix commissioned a global research study to learn about the state of global enterprise cloud deployments, application containerisation trends, and GenAI application adoption. In the Fall of 2024, U.K. researcher Vanson Bourne surveyed 1,500 IT and DevOps/Platform Engineering decision-makers around the world. 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. 

Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multicloud computing, announced it has been named as a pioneer in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, 2024, which Gartner describes as “offerings that deliver cloud-native attributes, which can be deployed and operated where the customer prefers." "Distributed hybrid infrastructure provides the foundation for the deployment of applications in a distributed manner that retains a cloud or cloud-inspired approach. In doing so, it improves agility and flexibility for the workloads outside of public cloud infrastructure.”  Hybrid multicloud platform Nutanix believes this award is due to the group's vision and assets in the integration of edge Nutanix believes this recognition is due to the company’s vision and investments in the integration of edge, private and public clouds, as well as having a platform that supports both cloud native and traditional applications. All this while providing unified management to help customers simplify their operations and use a hybrid multicloud platform to run applications anywhere and realise business outcomes faster. Hybrid multicloud vision “We are pleased to see this outcome and view it as validation of our hybrid multicloud vision and execution,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix. “We are committed to the innovation, execution and support that free customers to build, manage and run secure applications and manage their associated data, including cloud-native Gen AI apps, anywhere.” New Generative AI models Nutanix provides a secure, resilient, and self-healing forum for running apps and managing data Nutanix provides a secure, resilient and self-healing platform for running applications and managing data at scale across edge, public and private cloud environments. The single solution simplifies the management of distributed hybrid infrastructure with consistent data services across a choice of Kubernetes® environments for applications of all kinds, including new Generative AI models. Nutanix also continues focusing on innovation to support customers now and in the future. Recent announcements include: joint solutions with Dell Technologies to give customer choice for traditional and modern workloads; the GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 AI solution, including integrations with NVIDIA and Hugging Face, to accelerate enterprise AI adoption; Nutanix Kubernetes Platform solution to simplify management and operations of Kubernetes clusters; and new functionality in the Nutanix AHV hypervisor to drive enterprise modernisation, and more. Nutanix customers shared "We selected Nutanix to help us modernise our IT infrastructure from our VMware legacy environment which no longer supported our growing needs.” Paul Straton, Infrastructure and Security Manager, Day Lewis. “We explored other solutions following the acquisition of VMware and after evaluating key criteria, decided Nutanix was the best option.” Asad Rehman, IT Director, Regent’s University London. “Transitioning to Nutanix from VMware simplifies our operations with a unified hybrid multicloud platform.” Jeff Mack, Manager, Network/Server Administration, Titan America. "The migration to Nutanix was one of the fastest and smoothest transitions we’ve ever experienced.” Andrew Phan, CIO, Treasure Island Hotel and Casino.

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security™ Company announces its Rubrik Cyber Recovery capabilities are available for Nutanix AHV, a modern and secure virtualisation platform that powers both virtual machines (VMs) and containers on-premises and in public clouds. With Rubrik Cyber Recovery, Nutanix AHV users can confidently test and validate their recovery plans in clean rooms and expedite their forensic investigations, helping to provide cyber resilience following a cyberattack. Nutanix platform According to the most recent Rubrik Zero Labs report, 83% of all organisations’ encrypted data observed by Rubrik is within a virtualised architecture, such as Nutanix. While the Nutanix platform is inherently secure with native features such as automated threat and anomaly detection, role-based access control, lifecycle management, and micro-segmentation - a “defence in depth” strategy with multiple layers of security provides holistic protection. Rubrik Cyber Recovery addresses this need by enabling administrators to plan, test, and validate cyber recovery plans regularly and recover quickly in the event of a cyberattack. Secure and intelligent virtualisation solutions “As both the hypervisor and cybersecurity markets continue to rapidly evolve, organisations are seeking the most secure and intelligent virtualisation solutions to store their critical business data and mitigate risk in the face of cyberattacks and unexpected downtime,” said Lee Caswell, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix. “As a distributed system designed for the hybrid cloud, Nutanix AHV is engineered for unrivaled ease of use with fully integrated security. Rubrik Cyber Recovery provides that extra layer of cyber preparedness, and together, we help organisations take on their most complex enterprise IT challenges.” Key benefits of Rubrik Cyber Recovery for Nutanix AHV Test cyber recovery readiness in a clean room: Create pre-defined recovery plans and automate recovery validation and testing, ensuring recovery takes place in the desired order, contains necessary dependencies and prerequisites, and performs desired network changes. Orchestrate rapid recovery to production: Easily identify clean point-in-time snapshots using Rubrik data threat analytics, drastically reducing the time required to restore business operations. Expedite forensic investigations: Get visibility into suspicious activity using Rubrik data threat analytics, drastically reducing the time required to identify the best recovery point for forensics, and leverage out-of-band management to rapidly instantiate data and systems into clean rooms with ease.  Cyber recovery “Identifying the right snapshot for cyber recovery has historically been a cumbersome and manual process. As a result, cyber recovery testing is rarely done, if at all which can lead to a world of stress during a cyberattack,” said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer at Rubrik. “Rubrik Cyber Recovery removes the headache by providing threat analytics that pinpoint suitable recovery points and clones the data to a secure, isolated environment. By extending this capability to Nutanix AHV users, Rubrik delivers even more protection to data in virtualised environments to help organisations quickly restore their critical business operations.”