The survey found that over half of respondents are using some form of hybrid cloud services. Hybrid cloud adoption was popular across all business sizes and regions surveyed. Security, flexibility, and cost savings were the most common motivations for cloud adoption, especially among CIOs. The majority of respondents use cloud services primarily for storage, backups, and file storage workloads rather than more advanced analytics or disaster recovery. German medium-sized businesses were most likely to use cloud for storage, while larger businesses generally used cloud more for SaaS applications.