Dell Technologies said on April 30 it released a report analysing private cloud modernisation trends across the Asia-Pacific region, including South Korea, and outlining insights to prepare for future cloud environments.

The report, titled "IDC Infobrief - Accelerating Business Agility for Asia-Pacific Enterprises Through Private Cloud Modernisation" and commissioned by Dell from market research firm IDC, found that private cloud modernisation is essential for sustained growth and securing a competitive edge.

About half of surveyed Asia-Pacific companies, 46 percent, picked cloud migration as the top strategy for infrastructure modernisation.

Dell said this reflects growing demand for a resilient IT environment that can evolve with changing business requirements.

The report said companies now need infrastructure that can support new business models. It added that leading companies are moving away from a single vendor or rigid "cloud-first" strategies and are increasingly adopting a multi-hybrid cloud model.

Dell stressed that this architecture makes it easier to build a fit-for-purpose digital ecosystem. It also supports seamless application deployment and migration across private, public or hybrid environments.

South Korea was cited as one of the markets where this trend is particularly clear. The survey found that 93 percent of South Korean companies plan cloud repatriation. Key reasons included performance falling short of expectations and increased latency, data security and regulatory compliance requirements, and integration issues with existing systems.

The report cited "disaggregated" infrastructure as a key strength of modern private clouds. It said this approach allows computing, storage and networking to be scaled independently, easing constraints from limited upgrade cycles and minimising risks or costs stemming from lock-in.

The report found enterprise AI maturity is closely linked to hybrid and multi-hybrid cloud approaches.

It said a cost-efficient AI journey requires infrastructure with both agility and integration. It added that hybrid clouds can help realise AI potential while managing the scalability, security and regulatory compliance required by modern data workloads.

The survey found that 71 percent of South Korean companies plan to invest in hybrid or on-premises infrastructure to support AI initiatives. The main use cases were customer automation, productivity improvement, risk management and anomaly detection. Risks to AI adoption within the next year included a lack of training data for AI at 24 percent, security breaches and violations of personal data protection regulations at 18 percent, vendor lock-in at 16 percent, and limited effects relative to investment at 14 percent.

Kyoung-jin Kim (김경진), country president of Dell Technologies Korea, said continuous modernisation is not simply an IT task but a business necessity. He said demand is continuing to rise for choosing solutions freely and innovating infrastructure environments based on flexible, open architecture, amid the spread of multi-hybrid clouds and new requirements driven by AI.