34% of enterprises cite security and governance as the top evaluation factor for agentic AI platforms.

Only 5% of enterprises are fully ready to implement planned virtualization changes.

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.

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.

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

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

32% of leaders do not know the locations of all of their data centers, rising to 49% when including third-party providers.

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.

Nearly a third of senior leaders admit "we know we should do more than we do" when it comes to critical data security.

Confidence in data security falls to 40% when data passes through third-party provider networks.

70% of senior leaders are losing sleep over the security of their critical data.

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

11% of leaders say they are aware of definite weak points when their data travels across third-party infrastructures.

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

83% of enterprise leaders agree that reducing third-party network hops increases security.

68% of enterprise leaders use SIEM integration for visibility of backbone traffic.

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

48% of enterprise leaders are not fully confident they could demonstrate compliance with data protection regulations.