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Among those affected, the most common impacts on cloud strategy are:
● Inconsistent security and compliance across different providers (cited by 54%)
● Increased costs (47%)
● Limited control and visibility over cloud resources (42%)

Readiness for AI
When asked about their ability to take advantage of the growing AI opportunity, 40% of IT managers surveyed state that their
organisation has scalable, flexible and accessible IT platforms but lack the right skill sets to fully harness AI’s potential. This
compares to 25% that have the right platforms and feel well-positioned to get the best value from them, and 35% who are in
need of new platforms (22% of which are on a path to acquire these).

With generative AI increasingly being explored by enterprises looking to solve existing problems or seize new opportunities,
the survey looked into the importance of a range of factors in determining trust in an enterprise model for generative AI. It
found that the following all placed similarly among respondents:
● Transparent, modifiable models with explainable sources (cited by 89%)
● Proven performance and reliability in similar use cases (85%)
● Protection with model indemnification (84%)
● Compliance with data privacy and security standards (83%)
● Accessible for use across teams, not just data scientists (83%)
● Cost-effectiveness (82%)
● Domain-specific models (as opposed to generic LLMs) (79%)

The survey asked for the main obstacles preventing CTOs or equivalent decision makers from advancing generative AI
initiatives. The top listed were:
● Concerns about data privacy and security (43%)
● Energy consumption / sustainability concerns (39%)
● Insufficient infrastructure or resources (32%)
● Lack of transparency in AI models (31%)

Hans Roth, Senior Vice President & General Manager EMEA, Red Hat, stated “Cloud technology continues to unlock
significant advantages in scalability, cost efficiency and faster time to market. Yet, this adoption can also drive increased
complexity, with many organisations finding themselves slowed down by internal silos, as shown in this latest survey. With
the increasing prominence of AI in cloud strategies, we see from this survey that both IT managers and CTOs care about
transparency when it comes to AI models: we believe that an open source approach can bring the transparency, modifiability
and explainability needed for enterprise-ready generative AI.”

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