More Organizations Adopting GenAI, But Hurdles Remain: Survey

More than 80 percent of organizations have already implemented a GenAI strategy, Nutanix’s latest Enterprise Cloud Index report reveals, along with other findings, including some challenges.

Generative AI adoption is poised to usher in a new era of application and infrastructure modernization, according to Nutanix’s new Enterprise Cloud Index survey.

Nutanix, which offers hybrid multi-cloud computing solutions, released its latest report Wednesday on the state of GenAI adoption in enterprises.

The report also reveals that with the increase in GenAI adoption, many organizations are also consequently adopting app containerization.

Nearly 90 percent of organizations surveyed for the report said that at least some of their apps are now containerized. Ninety-four percent said that they are looking at container solutions as GenAI adoption grows.

The report shared some benefits organizations are seeing by containerizing apps. These include increased app portability because contained applications can be abstracted from any operating system hosting the app, making an app more resilient against malware, and using computing resources more efficiently.

“Many organizations have reached an inflection point with GenAI implementation and deployment,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, product and solutions marketing at Nutanix, in a statement.

“This year’s ECI revealed key trends that we’re hearing from customers as well, including challenges with scaling GenAI workloads from development to production, new requirements GenAI creates for data governance, privacy, and visibility, and integration with existing IT infrastructure. To successfully unlock ROI with GenAI projects, organizations need to take a holistic approach to modernizing applications and infrastructure and embrace containerization,” Caswell added.

Key Findings

Fifty-four percent of respondents said all their organization’s apps are containerized – both new apps and legacy apps. Twenty-seven percent said they were only containerizing new apps, and seven percent were containerizing legacy apps only.

Here are some other takeaways from the report:

Ninety-five percent of the report’s survey respondents say GenAI is changing their organization's priorities.
Seventy percent expects to see ROI from GenAI implementation in the next two to three years.
Fifty-two percent said their organization needs to make investments in training IT staff to support GenAI.
Forty-eight percent said they would need to hire new IT staff to support GenAI.
Respondents said that GenAI apps were the most containerized (70 percent), followed by development and test apps (62 percent), enterprise critical apps (57 percent), and then database apps (53 percent).

Adoption Challenges

Concerns surrounding data privacy, security, and an uptick in IT-related costs were all cited as worries around adopting GenAI and containerization solutions, by those surveyed. Here are some additional takeaways:

Ninety percent said data privacy is a major factor when implementing GenAI solutions.

Ninety-eight percent said they faced challenges scaling GenAI workloads, with integrating with existing infrastructure cited as the biggest hurdle.

Ninety percent of those surveyed said they expected a rise in IT-related costs because of GenAI implementation.

Seventy-three percent of C-level decision-makers felt they had all the necessary skills in-house to deal with GenAI and contained apps. Meanwhile, sixty-two percent of other organization leaders said the same.

Read Nutanix’s entire report here.