The document summarizes cloud adoption trends in Europe versus the United States. It finds that cloud adoption peaked two to five years ago in Europe, one to two years ago in the US. European companies use more public cloud services than North American counterparts, with the exception of cloud recovery services. Cloud storage is the second most widely adopted public cloud service after SaaS. Hybrid cloud is an emerging market, with only 5-7% of small/medium and large companies respectively having adopted it. Barriers to cloud adoption in Europe include security concerns and lack of interoperability between cloud services.