Hybrid cloud adoption has jumped to 68% in the UK and Ireland, an increase from 58% in 2022.

94% of organisations now operate in hybrid or cloud-first environments.

64% of organisations operate in hybrid-cloud environments.

Nearly nine in 10 (89%) Security and IT leaders cite deep observability as fundamental to securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure.

91% of Security and IT leaders are recalibrating hybrid cloud risk in the AI era.

83% confirm that deep observability is now being discussed at the board level to better protect hybrid cloud environments.

Nine out of ten (91%) Security and IT leaders concede to making compromises in securing and managing their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).

47% say that a challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud is the lack of comprehensive insight and visibility across their environments, including lateral movement in East-West traffic.

46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).

90% of IT and security leaders report managing hybrid cloud environments.

Organisations without plans to implement a hybrid cloud model are more likely (51%) to have data security and privacy concerns

Adopting a hybrid cloud storage model is identified as a strong risk mitigation strategy for security.