Enterprise cloud adoption rates have climbed in leaps and bounds over the past several years and 72 percent of companies are expected to pursue a hybrid cloud implementation strategy by 2015.[1] But cloud technology’s value proposition has transformed as business needs have evolved. Whereas cloud was once seen as being a way to reduce costs, cloud users are finding it’s now much more than a matter of saving money. As business processes and applications have become more complex and simultaneously more automated, more companies have moved away from virtualized environments in favor of the flexibility, reduced capex, rapid service delivery and other business benefits experienced by their peers who have made the leap to the cloud.