Mexico. Nutanix's Enterprise Cloud Index 2020 (ECI) report surveyed 3,400 IT decision makers worldwide and covered companies of various sizes from diverse industries on different continents: America; Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific (APJ) region.
The report focuses on cloud deployment and trends in Mexico, while also highlighting key data obtained from Mexican IT professionals and how it compares to cloud business experiences and plans elsewhere in the Americas region and the rest of the world.
Respondents answered questions about where their business applications are running today, where they plan to run them in the future, their challenges with cloud computing, and how their cloud initiatives compare to other IT projects and priorities.
In this year, it also asked about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on current and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities might be changing because of it.
Decision makers in Mexico reported increasing several investments in cloud infrastructure due to COVID-19 and are also reaching other goals on their journey to hybrid cloud.
Some findings highlighted that hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is being adopted as the basis for the private cloud of hybrid architecture: 59% have already implemented HCI or report that they are in the process of doing so. Hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud computing have features in common, such as virtualization, which helps ease integration and compatibility issues as cloud deployments expand.
Also, most indicate that they are moving away from their current IT deployment models to achieve better business outcomes. Gaining better control of the use of IT resources was the top driver of IT change (58%). Respondents from Mexico chose this factor much more frequently (69%).
The top anticipated results cited by respondents in Mexico as reasons to modernize their IT infrastructures were:
Gain better control of IT resource usage (69%)
Increase speed to meet business needs (50%)
Remote work support (44%)
Key results:
• Hybrid cloud is the ideal IT model in Mexico and elsewhere. The vast majority of ECI respondents globally (87%)) and even more in Mexico (93%) agreed that an integrated (hybrid) combination of public cloud and private cloud/data centers is the ideal architecture for their organization.
• Organizations in Mexico have done a good job of evolving from legacy data centers to private clouds. The percentage of respondents from Mexico who still exclusively manage traditional non-cloud-enabled data centers (9%) is half the global average (18%), while their private cloud penetration (29%) is moderately higher. Organizations in Mexico appear to be well positioned for the next step in their journey toward a hybrid cloud model, with 53% of respondents expecting to run an exclusively integrated hybrid environment over the next five years.
• Mexican companies are outperforming their peers with the adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Nearly 60% of respondents in Mexico reported that they have been fully implemented or are in the process of implementing HCI, compared to a global average of 50%. Another 28% plan to do so in the next 12 to 24 months.
• Security and cost advantages are the main decision factors when considering new IT implementations. While security, privacy, and compliance strengths were the number one decision factor among all respondents globally (21%) and ranked high on Mexico's list (19%), even more respondents from Mexico chose cost advantages (29%) as their top criterion, compared to just 18% globally.
• The global pandemic has raised the profile of IT and accelerated cloud adoption. The majority (85%) of respondents in Mexico said COVID-19 has made IT more strategically viewed in their organizations. While investment in public and hybrid cloud increased as a result, a significantly higher number of respondents in Mexico reported an increase in private cloud (50%) compared to the global average (37%).
"It's clear that mexico's companies have embarked on a journey to increase the use of hybrid cloud. The steps they are taking involve dismantling traditional data centers that are not cloud-enabled as they adopt public and private clouds, which they will then integrate into a coherently managed hybrid environment," said Fernando Zambrana, Sales Director of Nutanix Mexico.
