The movement to hybrid cloud is a complex business. Not surprisingly, some 60% of or­ganisations globally said they plan to seek some sort of third-party assistance with forging multi-cloud strategies, while a minority of organisations said they will take a best-of-breed or do-it-yourself approach.

This report examines key cloud trends, both globally and in the UK in particular. In the report, we discuss the key business drivers and benefits of multi-clouds and hybrid clouds, and we surface trends for individual workloads, as well as some of the challenges to cloud deployment.