European enterprises continue to adopt private cloud, despite the strong prevalence in their strategies to migrate to public clouds. In 2017, they sought to optimize these strategies, seeking less complexity, tighter budgets, and heightened developer productivity. The era of the pragmatic cloud is here; enterprises are exploring change tolerance, the impact of GDPR, and common API solutions like Azure Stack. This report analyzes current trends in private cloud adoption, using data from the Forrester Data Global Business Technographics® Infrastructure Survey, 2017.