India, July 8 -- Nutanix has announced the retail industry findings of its second Enterprise Cloud Index Report, measuring retailers' plans for adopting private, Hybrid Cloud, and public clouds. The report found the vast majority of retailers (87.5%) identified the hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. It also showed many retailers (72%) are planning to move some public cloud applications back on-premises.

Retailers recognize that seamless customer experience is no longer a "nice-to-have" it's a critical factor in winning new customers and retaining existing ones - and flexible cloud infrastructure is critical to delivering it. A recent IDC report noted worldwide spending on customer experience technologies will reach $641 billio...