From cloud rush to cloud strategy: The next wave of migrations

Over the past decade, enterprises have raced to adopt the cloud, often through "lift-and-shift" strategies built for speed rather than optimization. Cloud-first mandates swept across industries, especially in finance, retail, and healthcare, as organizations scrambled to modernize. These early migrations often preserved legacy inefficiencies, resulting in bloated spend and limited performance gains. Most core workloads are now in the cloud: customer-facing applications, internal tools, and mission-critical systems, but cloud migration didn’t deliver transformation on its own. Instead, new problems are surfacing, including rising costs, tool sprawl, and mounting governance gaps. For IT leaders and managed service providers, the question isn’t… [Continue Reading]