INDUSTRY COMMENTS
LEVERAGING THE BEST FOR OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE AND FLEXIBILITY The customers of Nutanix continue to recognize the benefits of Hybrid Cloud in terms of its scalability, flexibility, and cost effectiveness.
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s per the global findings of Nutanix’s fifth global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, the majority (60%) of IT teams leverage more than one IT infrastructure, whether it is a mix of private and public Clouds, multiple public Clouds, or an on-premises datacentre along with a hosted datacentre. That number is expected to grow to nearly three quarters (74%) in the near future. However, this leads to challenges and 94% say they’d benefit from having a single place to manage applications and data across diverse environments. In the Middle East and Africa region, there is certainly growing momentum in the Cloud space. According to Business Market Insights’ research,
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the Middle East & Africa Cloud computing market was valued at US$ 17,813.65 million in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 54,235.27 million by 2028, registering an annual growth rate of 20.4% from 2022 to 2028.
LEADING CLOUD TRENDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA REGION When it comes to hybrid Cloud adoption in the MEA region, although there are no research figures for the overall region, Nutanix’s Saudi findings from its latest Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey throw up some interesting facts that might represent the larger region. Less than half of Saudi companies (45%) currently use multiple IT modes. This is substantially lower than the
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