There is a lot of hype and hoopla about the cloud but few reliable facts and benchmarks about the adoption of this technology. CIOs, CTOs, and heads of infrastructure at large enterprises have shared with us their frustrations about adopting cloud-based platforms and migrating processing workloads to virtual environments. To address those frustrations, between 2014 and 2016 we surveyed senior business and technology leaders in more than 50 large organizations in Europe and North America to find out about their adoption of cloud and next-generation infrastructure.1 1. Most companies in our sample are Fortune 100 companies with large infrastructure budgets. They have been among the earliest adopters of cloud technologies. They come from a range of industries, regulatory environments, and geographies. The survey process started in 2014 and ended in the first half of 2016.