Hybrid cloud is clearly becoming the default configuration for most organizations, combining growing public cloud usage (including off-premises hosting) with existing on-premises workloads. Organizations will continue to keep workloads on-premises for the foreseeable future, but increasingly recognize the importance of being able to integrate them with off-premises
cloud workloads.

In order to gain more insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 358 IT professionals at organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada) responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing the technologies underlying their organization’s on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.