In mid-2018, VansonBourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix to gain insight into enterprise plans for adopting private, hybrid, and public clouds. The respondent base spanned multiple industries, business sizes, and geographies,

Today, enterprise IT teams decide where to run a given business application based on factors that include the economics, regulatory compliance, performance, availability, and security of the available infrastructure options. The enterprises surveyed for this report clearly indicated that their use of both private and public clouds would rise sharply during the next 12 to 24 months.

At the same time, they indicated that they would like to see improvements in application mobility and interoperability among cloud environments for greater flexibility in matching applications to the most appropriate infrastructure. They cited security and a scarcity of hybrid cloud skillsets as additional barriers to achieving these goals