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TRENDING to another over the past year , with security and innovation as the top drivers for this movement . Enterprises should expect application and data movement to remain constant and plan infrastructure choices accordingly – emphasizing flexibility and visibility . Organisations face significant roadblocks when it comes to executing complex application migrations , with 35 % of ECI respondents saying workload and application migration is a significant challenge given their current IT infrastructure .
• IT teams aren ’ t just planning their sustainability programs , they are actively implementing them starting with IT modernisation . Eightyeight per cent of ECI respondents agree that sustainability is a priority for their organisation . However , unlike in the previous report where action was limited , many organisations indicate they are already taking active steps to implement sustainability initiatives , with the most common being modernizing IT infrastructure . This shows the direct impact of IT infrastructure on sustainability .
• Infrastructure modernisation is becoming an imperative , driven by AI , modern applications and data growth . ECI respondents identified increased investment to support AI strategy as their top priority , followed closely by investment in IT modernisation . Furthermore , 37 % of ECI respondents indicate running AI applications on their current IT infrastructure will be a “ significant ” challenge . To mitigate and overcome this challenge , organisations are prioritizing IT modernisation and edge infrastructure deployments , which can facilitate faster processing and access to data . This , in turn , can help improve their ability to link data from multiple environments to give better visibility into where data resides across their sprawling ecosystems .
For the sixth consecutive year , Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix , surveying 1,500 IT and DevOps / Platform Engineering decisionmakers around the world in December 2023 .
The respondent base spanned multiple industries , business sizes and geographies , including North and South America and Asia-Pacific-Japan ( APJ ) region . p
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