{"id":54909,"date":"2026-03-18T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=54909"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:09:19","slug":"nutanix-report-finds-ai-is-driving-rapid-container-adoption-while-shadow-it-creates-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2026\/03\/18\/nutanix-report-finds-ai-is-driving-rapid-container-adoption-while-shadow-it-creates-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutanix report finds AI is driving rapid container adoption while Shadow IT creates risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, has announced the Australian findings of its eighth annual <em>Enterprise Cloud Index<\/em> (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year\u2019s report looked closely at the challenges IT local executives face as they navigate the rapid increase of AI use and need for application and infrastructure modernisation in the enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapid rise of AI adoption in the enterprise over the last year is forcing a wave of infrastructure modernisation, as companies race to build and run applications more efficiently. In fact, containers have become a core component of the enterprise application strategy with 90% of Australian respondents confirming AI is accelerating their adoption of containers to improve speed, reliability and scalability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is clear Australian organisations are ready to embrace AI, but this requires resilient, dependable and well-governed infrastructure. Containerisation has emerged as a fundamental pillar in local AI and application strategies, but broader adoption requires a reimagining of the underlying infrastructure,\u201d said Michael Alp, Managing Director for A\/NZ at Nutanix. \u201cRather than manage a two-speed infrastructure stack, a common operating environment to manage both containerised and traditional workloads would address key concerns like shadow IT and data sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, has announced the Australian findings of its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year\u2019s report looked closely at the challenges IT local executives face as they navigate the rapid increase of AI use and need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":54910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,12,55,44],"tags":[1108,76,79,2690,8713,1625,3071],"class_list":["post-54909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apac","category-cloud","category-oceania","category-top-stories","tag-ai","tag-australia","tag-cloud","tag-containers","tag-infrastructure-modernisation","tag-research","tag-shadow-it"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54911,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54909\/revisions\/54911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}