Forrester Consulting conducted a survey to reveal what types of challenges enterprise hardware and operating systems are facing with the increasingly demanding workloads from applications and data. In conducting a quantitative survey with 150 North American application developers, IT architects and strategists, Forrester found that while these companies are very cautious about making a major ecosystem change, they recognize that increasing demands for performance, stability and reliability mean they must plan and articulate a clear path to a more robust, performance oriented architecture.