IT GROWTH IN SAUDI ARABIA: HYBRID MULTICLOUD AND HOSTED SERVICES

Nutanix has announced the findings of its fifth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey, which show that organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plan to move their hybrid multicloud deployments from 7% penetration today to 51% penetration in three years. They also plan to swap much of their exclusive use of on-premises IT infrastructure for hosted datacenter services, slashing on-prem infrastructure from 39% today to 0% within three years, while increasing their use of hosted services by three-fold.

KEY SAUDI FINDINGS FROM THIS YEAR’S REPORT INCLUDE:

Enterprises in Saudi Arabia trail the global averages in mixed IT deployments but have aggressive three-year plans to catch up. Less than half of Saudi companies (45%) currently use multiple IT modes. This is substantially lower than the global average (60%).

 Data security and backup protection are the biggest IT infrastructure criteria. When asked to name the single most important factor when making an IT infrastructure decision, respondents from Saudi Arabia chose cybersecurity (15%) and data protection/recovery (15%) most often as the top ones, in equal measure, followed closely by data sovereignty considerations (14%). alignment with end-user expectations, prioritize, and reduce risk while securing workloads.

 Mixed environments create new challenges and demand for a single place to view and manage all workloads and data.

 All Saudi respondent organizations moved applications between infrastructures in the past 12 months.

“Increased infrastructure diversity, along with a heightened emphasis on data storage, management, security, and services, is driving all IT pros in Saudi to seek hybrid operations that transcend private and public infrastructure,” said Mohammed Abulhouf.

In addition to Cloud Native Application Observability, the first set of modules on Cisco’s FSO Platform are:

• Cost Insights: Provides visibility and insights into application-level costs alongside performance metrics, helping businesses understand the fiscal impact of their cloud applications, while also supporting sustainability efforts.

• Application Resource Optimizer: Provides visibility into Kubernetes workload resource utilization, so businesses can maximize resource usage and reduce excessive cloud spend, helping them meet financial targets and sustainability goals.