100% of enterprises plan to expand agentic AI adoption in 2026.

57% of enterprises are taking a phased approach to future‑proof their IT.

65% of enterprises are already using AI agents today.

74% of enterprises view deploying agentic AI into production as a critical priority or strategic imperative.

63% of manufacturing enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

52% of enterprises report meaningful impact from agentic AI in IT.

When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 61% say cross‑platform governance is very important or business critical.

When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 55% say integrated observability and AIOps is very important or business critical.

73% of construction enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

71% of financial services enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

60% of retail and eCommerce enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

Budget constraints (28%), technical complexity (24%), migration risk (21%), and skills gaps (20%) are cited by enterprises as the top barriers slowing virtualization progress.

Only 4% of enterprises cite licensing costs as the single biggest catalyst for virtualization.

78% of provisions are in the public cloud, 61% are in virtualized clusters, 48% are in private cloud, and 32% are at the edge.

When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 70% of enterprises say access to unified backup and cyber‑recovery is very important or business critical.

64% of enterprise leaders in the UK view AI as posing little or no threat to networks.

70% of enterprise leaders use real-time alerts to secure data.

Data security is the single biggest network concern for enterprises, cited by 35% of leaders.

56% of enterprise leaders classify AI-related risks to their critical data as moderate to extreme.

77% of enterprise leaders say data sovereignty requirements heavily influence their choice of backbone provider.