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Understanding the cloud computing purchase process

Foundry — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:55:49 +0000

Cloud investment continues to grow, but reaching and influencing cloud buyers is increasingly complex. Today’s cloud purchase process involves an average of 37 stakeholders across IT and lines of business, with different decision-makers shaping each stage of the journey.

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Who influences each stage of the cloud purchase process
Where vendors can make an impact
How buyers educate themselves
How AI is changing technology purchasing
What growing cloud investment means for marketers

AI fuels adoption even as workload repatriation accelerates

Foundry — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:21:48 +0000

In its 13th year, Foundry’s Cloud Computing Study was conducted to measure cloud trends among technology decision-makers around the globe. The research includes adoption and spending plans, business drivers, challenges, and top cloud growth areas, such as artificial intelligence.

Insight into EMEA cloud computing plans

Foundry — Mon, 02 May 2022 15:07:21 +0000

Explore cloud computing trends in EMEA

As EMEA companies increasingly see value from cloud migration, they’re pursuing a deliberate cloud-first or cloud-native approach to IT infrastructure. Foundry’s 2022 Cloud Computing Survey shows that IT leaders in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are far more likely (84%) than those elsewhere to have accelerated their cloud migration in the last 12 months.

This executive summary based on the latest EMEA research outlines the challenges that IT leaders in EMEA are experiencing, what is motivating their shift to the cloud, their expected top growth areas for cloud computing, and how they expect to allocate their IT budget to cloud investments.

Download the executive summary to learn:

How much EMEA tech decision-makers expect to spend towards cloud computing initiatives over the next 12 months.
Organizations’ plans for migrating applications and workloads to the cloud, and also how they plan to default to cloud-based services.
Which areas EMEA IT leaders believe to be the top three cloud growth areas currently.
The roadblocks that EMEA ITDMs face while implementing their cloud strategy and the help they need from cloud providers.

Explore cloud computing trends in APAC

Foundry — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 14:57:09 +0000

Cloud computing trends in the APAC region

According to Foundry’s 2022 Cloud Computing research, just 27% of companies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region currently have most or all of their IT environment in the cloud, compared to 41% globally – but they expect that to double to 53% in the next 18 months. While APAC organizations may be slightly behind their global counterparts when it comes to their current cloud status, they have plans in place accelerate their cloud use in the future.

This executive summary based on the latest APAC research outlines the challenges that IT leaders in APAC are experiencing, what is motivating their shift to the cloud, their expected top growth areas for cloud computing, and how they expect to allocate their IT budget to cloud investments.

Download the executive summary to learn:

How much APAC tech decision-makers expect to spend towards cloud computing initiatives over the next 12 months.
Organizations’ plans for migrating applications and workloads to the cloud, and also how they plan to default to cloud-based services.
Which areas APAC IT leaders believe to be the top three cloud growth areas currently.
The roadblocks that APAC ITDMs face while implementing their cloud strategy and the help they need from cloud providers.