Riverbed recently polled attendees at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to find out the pervasiveness of the Hybrid Enterprise. Riverbed surveyed 230 attendees face-to-face from a wide range of company sizes, clustered around smaller companies of 250 or so employees as well as a sizeable showing of enterprises with more than 10,000 employees. Most of the people who participated in the survey worked in IT development or business-related functions. The bottom line, the Hybrid Enterprise is clearly upon us and enterprises need to meet the challenges that come with it.