Nutanix Study Finds AI, Security, and Sustainability are Driving the Need for IT Infrastructure Modernization in Healthcare
April 17 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Healthcare organizations now outpace other
industries in adoption of multiple IT models with 73% compared to
the all-industry average of 60%.
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing,
announced the findings of its sixth annual global Healthcare
Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which
measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption in the industry.
The research showed that hybrid multicloud adoption is surging
among healthcare organizations as the majority are significantly
increasing investments in IT modernization.
This year’s Healthcare ECI report revealed that the use of
hybrid multicloud models in healthcare is forecasted to double over
the next one to three years. IT decision-makers at healthcare
organizations are facing new pressures to modernize IT
infrastructures to effectively harness the power of AI, mitigate
security risks, and be more sustainable.
Healthcare organizations handle large amounts of personal health
information (PHI) that can be complex to manage with the need to
remain compliant with regulations like the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). As organizations in all
industries continue to grapple with the complexities of moving
applications and data across environments, hybrid multicloud
solutions provide key benefits to healthcare organizations
including helping them simplify operations, deliver better patient
outcomes, and improve clinician productivity. The Healthcare ECI
report found the adoption of the hybrid multicloud operating model
in healthcare organizations has increased by 10 percentage points
compared to last year, jumping from 6% to 16%. While deployment
trailed other industries last year, healthcare is now on par with
all industries (15%).
“Healthcare organizations have traditionally lagged behind in
technology adoption, yet we’ve seen an impressive increase in
modernization in the last year alone – driven by AI and the need
for data portability,” said Scott Ragsdale, Sr. Director, Sales,
U.S. Healthcare at Nutanix. “Across industries, 80% of Healthcare
ECI respondents are planning to invest in IT modernization, with
85% planning to increase their investments specifically to support
AI. Healthcare organizations are no different, focusing on
future-proofing IT infrastructure today to prepare for the needs of
tomorrow – including AI and sustainability.”
Healthcare survey respondents were asked about their current
cloud challenges, how they’re running business applications today,
and where they plan to run them in the future. Key findings from
this year’s report include:
- Healthcare organizations have accelerated their use of
multiple IT operating models, and both their current and planned
mixed IT deployments now surpass those of the global response
pool. Nearly three-fourths (73%) of ECI respondents in
healthcare organizations reported using multiple IT models this
year, compared to 53% last year. Last year, healthcare was behind
the average across industries by seven percentage points and now
outpaces it by 13 points.
- When healthcare organizations are investing in IT
infrastructure, workload portability and AI support are top of
mind—and next year’s budgets reflect these priorities. ECI
respondents in the healthcare sector identified AI and the
flexibility to move workloads back and forth across private and
public cloud infrastructure as the most important factor driving
purchasing decisions at 17% each followed in importance by the
performance potential of the infrastructure (14%) and how well it
lends itself to successful data sovereignty and privacy management
(14%).
- Security and compliance fluctuations and concerns are the
biggest reasons enterprises relocate their applications to a
different infrastructure. An overwhelming majority of
healthcare respondents (98%) and across industries (95%) responded
that they moved one or more applications in the past 12 months
driving the need in their organizations for simple and flexible
inter-cloud workload and application portability. This is largely
being fueled largely by shifting security-related requirements
according to respondents.
- AI has broad applicability in the healthcare sector, and
respondents consider it both a priority and a challenge. ECI
respondents shared that support for AI tied as the top IT
infrastructure purchase criterion among healthcare organizations.
In addition, implementing AI strategies came in second when
healthcare respondents ranked what they considered the biggest
priority for their organizations’ CIOs, CTOs, and leadership (17%).
84% of healthcare organizations said they were increasing
investments in AI strategy in the coming year. The same group,
however, largely considered running AI to be a challenge
(82%).
- The top-ranked challenges in healthcare IT departments are
related to multi-environment operations, security, and
sustainability. When asked to name their number one data
management challenge today, an equal percentage of healthcare ECI
respondents identified complying with data storage/usage guidelines
and linking data across disparate environments (20%) as the top
factor. Other data security issues, including combating ransomware
and ensuring data privacy, were each cited by the next greatest
number of respondents (17%).
For the sixth consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted research
on behalf of Nutanix, surveying 1,500 IT and DevOps/Platform
Engineering decision-makers around the world in December 2023. The
respondent base spanned multiple industries, business sizes, and
geographies, including North and South America; Europe, the Middle
East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific-Japan (APJ) region.
To learn more about the report and findings, please download the
full Healthcare Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index, here.
About Nutanix
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organizations a single platform for running apps and data across
clouds. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify
operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes.
Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged
infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power
hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and
cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on
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