This report tracks how enterprises are allocating infrastructure budget across public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid environments, with a focus on cost optimization and workload placement strategy.

Cost optimization overtook new workload migration as the top infrastructure priority for the first time this year. Enterprises running SAP workloads increasingly favor hyperscaler-certified SAP HANA infrastructure over self-managed data center deployments.

FinOps practices are moving from a specialized function to a standard expectation of infrastructure teams, and we expect multi-cloud governance tooling to see the fastest budget growth of any infrastructure category next year.