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● Security, compliance and sovereignty regulatory requirements (78%)
● Preparing for AI adoption (77%)
● Evolving cloud strategy in line with business objectives (76%)
Siloed teams are slowing cloud adoption
96% of IT managers surveyed said siloed teams pose challenges when adopting cloud technologies, with
53% encountering this issue frequently.
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%)
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