Cloud computing represents a compelling new way of providing business agility, flexibility, and time-to-value, but companies are learning the hard way that the ability to effectively manage application performance – and the associated data -- in the cloud must be a core component of their IT and business strategy from Day 1.

Almost 700 businesses in North America and Europe were independently surveyed to understand whether they are already experiencing the impact of poor application performance in their cloud application deployments, and how this is affecting their cloud strategies going forward. The surprising results are detailed in this whitepaper.