Key Findings
When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 70% of enterprises say access to unified backup and cyber‑recovery is very important or business critical.
Over a quarter of IT decision makers place AI readiness at the top of their priorities.
More than two-thirds of enterprises plan material changes to their virtualization strategy within the next two years.
Only 5% of enterprises are fully ready to implement planned virtualization changes.
When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 61% say cross‑platform governance is very important or business critical.
When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 55% say integrated observability and AIOps is very important or business critical.
Budget constraints (28%), technical complexity (24%), migration risk (21%), and skills gaps (20%) are cited by enterprises as the top barriers slowing virtualization progress.
Only 4% of enterprises cite licensing costs as the single biggest catalyst for virtualization.
57% of enterprises are taking a phased approach to future‑proof their IT.
78% of provisions are in the public cloud, 61% are in virtualized clusters, 48% are in private cloud, and 32% are at the edge.