Enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud architectures, though their short-term cloud deployment plans have hit a significant speed bump during the past year.

Nearly three-fourths of 2019 respondents reported that they’re moving some number of applications from the public cloud back on premises, and, correspondingly, the use of traditional, non-cloud-enabled datacenters actually increased slightly instead of dropping by more than 20%, as expected.

Still, 2019 survey respondents reported steady and substantial hybrid deployment plans over the next five years.

In addition, the vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85%) selected hybrid cloud as their ideal IT operating model, and the largest percentage of respondents (49%) cited hybrid cloud as the model meeting all of their needs