IT organizations are adapting to the increased pace of digital innovation and the rapid growth of distributed, cloud-native applications
82% of respondents currently use hybrid cloud
Top two challenges for hybrid cloud adoption
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- Security concerns
- Increased operational complexity
See more survey data in the 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report
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38% of organizations plan to modernize mission-critical and legacy applications in place and 25% plan to refactor and shift
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79% tell us that more than half of their workloads will run on different hardware across all environments, which reinforces the need for a comprehensive toolset for managing workloads regardless of where they reside
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