Cloud Providers Can't Forget What Enterprises Actually Run On
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-10-28
David Linthicum argues the cloud industry chases the next big thing — serverless, AI, Kubernetes, IoT, managed platforms — while most enterprise cloud consumption still happens in fundamentals: compute, storage, networking, operations, security and management.
Companies migrating to public cloud largely move existing workloads rather than rebuilding, so IaaS providers must balance investing in higher-level services with not shortchanging the core platform those workloads depend on.
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