This report examines the shift from a cloud-first mindset to a hybrid-first strategy, based on a global survey of 271 IT professionals. It highlights that organizations now run nearly half of their workloads on-prem and half in the public cloud, recognizing that not all applications benefit from full cloud migration. The document shows broad adoption of cloud for databases, analytics, DevTest, and collaboration workloads, while reliability remains the top requirement for storage solutions. Security and compliance are identified as the biggest hybrid-cloud challenges, and survey data shows 90% expect increased container usage. Respondents also foresee continued cloud migration and emphasize integrating disaster recovery directly into hybrid-cloud strategies. The report concludes that true a

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