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NetApp Customers Say Hybrid Cloud is the Future of Enterprise IT in New Global Survey
77 percent of NetApp enterprise customers who participated in new survey examining hybrid cloud adoption drivers plan to operate hybrid clouds to meet
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n77 percent of NetApp enterprise customers who participated in new survey examining hybrid cloud adoption drivers plan to operate hybrid clouds to meet growing business demands for faster innovation\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, today revealed findings from its survey assessing the adoption of hybrid cloud strategies and operational focus areas among NetApp’s global enterprise customer base.\n\nThe survey of IT decision makers and infrastructure owners around the world found that 77 percent plan to operate their businesses in hybrid cloud environments for the foreseeable future in order to meet growing business demands for faster innovation, while optimizing operations and lowering infrastructure costs.\n\n“Speed is the new scale. IT leaders everywhere are accelerating digital transformation efforts, requiring more agility and flexibility to stay ahead of their competition and deliver immediate business impact,” said Ronen Schwartz, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Cloud Volumes at NetApp. “Enterprises are embracing hybrid cloud models to effectively scale out IT resources to support business-critical applications and workloads – and NetApp is leading the industry in providing hybrid multi-cloud solutions to meet these organizations wherever they are.”\n\nHighlights from NetApp’s 2021 Hybrid Cloud Enterprise Customer Adoption Survey include:\n\n\nThe Future is Hybrid Cloud: More than three-quarters of respondents said their organization plans to operate a hybrid cloud environment for the foreseeable future, while only 17 percent expect their organization to eventually migrate all IT to the cloud. Those surveyed listed the most important business benefits of hybrid cloud adoption to be:\n\n\nFaster Innovation - 26 percent\n\n\nIncreased Responsiveness to Customers - 25 percent\n\n\nIncreased Collaboration - 22 percent\n\n\n\n\nKey Operational Drivers for Hybrid Cloud Adoption: Respondents indicated they are looking to improve infrastructure flexibility and scale (27 percent), as hybrid cloud designs help IT teams get access to the on-demand and emerging technologies offered by public cloud while still leveraging legacy systems running reliably on-premises. Nearly a quarter (21 percent) said they needed to optimize costs, while 13 per...