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Publication Date: 2026-03-06 08:00:00
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Nutanix, a hybrid multicloud computing company, has published the findings of its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report.
The report looked at the challenges IT executives face as they navigate the rapid growth of AI use and the increasing need for application and infrastructure modernization in the enterprise.
Scaling AI confidently across environments
Conducted in November 2025 by Wakefield Research, the survey gathered responses from 1,600 cloud, IT, and engineering executives with at least a manager-level title.
According to Nutanix, widespread AI adoption has triggered “a wave of infrastructure modernization” across the channel, as organizations race to build and run applications more efficiently.
To support this shift, the report found that containers have become a core component of enterprise application strategies. The survey showed that 85 percent of respondents say that AI is accelerating their adoption of containers to improve speed, reliability, and scalability.
“The findings indicate organizations need enterprise-grade security, resilience, and portability as AI workloads can run anywhere,” said Lee Caswell, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix.
“Organizations would also benefit…
