Most enterprises have embraced the “low-hanging fruit” of cloud services, phasing in SaaS applications and creating IaaS environments for testing and development. As cloud technologies have matured, however, businesses are considering the transfer of more mission-critical systems to cloud resources. This white paper outlines the current state and future plans of enterprise cloud adoption, based on ZDNet’s “Cloud Priorities 2015” research report, and discuss best practices for ensuring a safe and productive migration that enables companies to leverage the full benefit of elastic and dynamic cloud operations.