Despite all that’s going on globally, especially with the pandemic and ongoing microchip shortage, the market for hybrid cloud solutions isn’t contracting.

Part of the reason for this solid performance lies in the fact that organizations that are increasingly moving a large swathe of their workforce toward remote work have seen the security and scalability benefits of hybrid cloud.

“Over the past few years, we’ve seen cloud investments really take off,” said Tanu Sood (pictured, left), senior director of product marketing at Nutanix Inc. “In fact, last year in the midst of the pandemic, when the economy was showing a downturn, cloud spending was up by 30%. So organizations are looking to cloud for speed, for scale, for elasticity and for app modernization.”

Sood and Saveen Pakala (pictured, right), vice president of product management, hybrid cloud platform, at Nutanix, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the .NEXT conference. They discussed market trends relating to hybrid milticloud. (* Disclosure below.)

On-prem deployment is still in demand across multiple sectors

Organizations are still adamant about maintaining some of their IT operations on-premises — either in the meantime or permanently, according to Sood. This trend accounts for the surging demand for hybrid cloud solutions.

“So what they’re really talking about is this hot notion of hybrid cloud, which is interoperability between their on-prem investments, their existing investments, and their public cloud investments,” she explained. “In fact, I would say Gartner in 2020 did a survey and 75% of organizations actually talked about hybrid cloud being the preferred IT operating model. An overwhelming majority of that 80% who had public cloud in their infrastructure also had two or more public cloud providers in their space.”

Onboarding companies onto the hybrid cloud bandwagon hasn’t all been smooth sailing though, Pakala pointed out. Several hindrances have worked against hybrid cloud adoption rates in recent times. Companies are making considerations factoring in the effort and logistical undertaking that the migration might require. There’s also the question of service levels from the backup, security and performance perspectives.

“What we have seen is that there are four typical issues that come up when customers start to look at their hybrid multicloud journey,” Pakala said. “The first one is: How do I move my on-prem applications and workloads to public cloud? Do I need to refactor the applications as I do that? How do I move that application from one cloud to the other and potentially move it back to the data center?”

One way to remedy all of these reservations with the viability and utility of hybrid cloud, according to Pakala, is by leveraging a consolidated and consistent management model between public and private cloud implementations. Nutanix has made a name protecting valuable cloud data resources for hybrid cloud-focused companies with things like software license protection across the board. There are software layers that sit on top of the different cloud models, making them completely synchronous to one another, Pakala added.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the .NEXT conference. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the .NEXT conference. Neither Nutanix Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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