Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 38 | Page 56

FEATURE : CLOUD MANAGEMENT

AS THE INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO PLACE GREATER INTEREST IN DATA PRIVACY AND COMPLIANCE ISSUES , ORGANISATIONS ARE TURNING TO THE PRIVATE CLOUD .

• Investment in hyperconverged infrastructure shows the industry ’ s confidence in private cloud : Nearly 50 % of financial sector respondents say they ’ ve either fully deployed HCI or are in the process of doing so , while 38 % report they will be deploying HCI within the next 12 – 24 months . This investment is directly aligned with increased private cloud adoption , as HCI reduces the time it takes to build the software-defined , scalable infrastructure necessary to support private cloud .
• Financial services organisations are looking to optimise their cloud usage : The sector ’ s top motivations for modernising its IT infrastructure is to gain greater control of IT resource usage ( 59 %) and to gain the speed ( 58 %) and flexibility needed ( 55 %) to meet business requirements .
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