In early 2022 IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the importance of hybrid cloud in supporting growing and increasingly complex application workloads as part of digital transformation. To explore this topic, Forrester conducted a survey of 503 global IT and infrastructure and operations decision-makers from companies in various regions and industry sectors around the world. The research revealed that most organizations are taking a modern, hybrid approach to meet the individual demands of their application workloads and matching those specialized demands with cloud (both public and private) as well as traditional platforms.