Across the board, agentic AI is a growing global priority. However, as workloads move from pilots to production, they are hitting a functional ceiling. Research from our partner Google Cloud shows 83% of organizations require infrastructure upgrades to support production-grade autonomous systems.

This second annual report draws on direct insights from 1,402 global IT leaders to establish the new standard for the agentic era. Discover how innovative organizations are reimagining their entire architectural approach to scale AI with confidence.

Key findings include:

• The governance prerequisite: 4 out of 5 leaders cite security, governance, and MLOps as the most significant challenges.
• The hybrid multicloud standard: 52% of organizations now use hybrid multicloud architecture.
• Energy efficiency: 91% of leaders now factor power consumption into hardware selection.

“This report isn’t just a survey of the landscape; it‘s a roadmap for establishing the new standard for production-grade autonomous systems.”

— Nirav Mehta, VP, Product Management, Google Cloud