A hybrid multicloud refers to private infrastructure being coupled with more than one public cloud.
The Nutanix report said that hybrid multicloud usage in India at present is at 12% and expected to increase five-fold (to 63%) in the next three years. This increase in adoption will be driven by increased infrastructure diversity, along with a heightened emphasis on data storage, management, security, and services, it said.
“Customers have realised that different applications require different types of performances and it makes sense to keep some, where you have predictability, on a private cloud or on premise, and keep the ones where you can’t predict the size and scale on the public cloud,” Faiz Shakir, managing director, ales, Nutanix India & SAARC, told ET.
Shakir added that the cloud market in India has matured over the last few years, and that customers have gone through three spending cycles to also realise what makes better commercial sense for them.
The Nutanix study also found that nearly half (48%) of organisations in India leverage more than one type of IT infrastructure, including a mix of private and public clouds, multiple public clouds, or an on-premises data centre, along with a hosted data centre. This number is expected to grow by 87% in the three years, outpacing the global ECI average by 13%.
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