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Publication Date: 2026-03-04 06:37:00
Hybrid multi-cloud computing platform company Nutanix has detailed its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report.
This is the company’s most (internally, if not also externally) revered market analysis and it is carried out every year with precision in order to provide software engineering teams in the cloud-native space with bellwether markers that point to the most important macro trends (even when they are being played out at the micro-level) in the industry.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps (actually, not perhaps, it’s definitely) artificial intelligence plays a big part in the study this year. We can say with some certainty that the deployment of AI is central to the need for application and infrastructure modernisation in enterprises.
This race for infrastructure modernisation in the face of AI sees containers become an even more central and core component of enterprise application strategy. Almost all (85% of respondents) have reported that AI is accelerating their adoption of containers to improve speed, reliability, and scalability.
Why AI drives container adoption
There are manifold reasons why AI is driving container adoption, so let’s unpack this.
We can say that a core rationale here is the fact that containers provide a more standardised environment, contained (yes, the clue really is in the name) in one place so that complex software application libraries can execute without experiencing fragmented and broken…