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Publication Date: 2026-08-17 04:00:00
Public sector organisations, including federal, state, and local governments, K-12, and higher education, are incorporating AI into business operations ranging from benefits eligibility to fraud detection, according to Nutanix.
Yet, they are facing barriers in infrastructure readiness, workforce capability, and governance. This drives the urgent need for public sector IT leaders to build modernised hybrid infrastructure that can support the growing needs of this diverse industry.
Nutanix commissioned a global research study to assess the state of cloud adoption, containerisation, and AI application deployment. 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.
Respondents represent organisations with 500 or more employees across Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Faced with a dual mandate to advance mission outcomes and safeguard public data, government agencies are turning to application containerisation to improve the speed, scalability, and security of their AI workloads, even as organisational silos increase the risk of unmanaged shadow AI.
Government and education IT leaders surveyed in the Nutanix Public Sector Report overwhelmingly agree (91%) that unvetted AI usage creates…
