Cloud Reports Measure the Wrong Thing: Hybrid Cloud Is Often Legacy, Not Strategy
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-11-14
Cloud analyst David Linthicum argues that the familiar conclusions of cloud surveys — cloud is strategic, hybrid dominates, AI adds complexity, waste persists, governance is the answer — aren't wrong so much as incomplete.
The bigger issue: many enterprises are still paying for architecture and workload-placement decisions made years ago. Hybrid cloud is often framed as strategy when it's really the residue of acquisitions, inherited infrastructure, siloed teams, or lift-and-shift moves that never made economic sense.
FinOps teams, cloud CoEs, dashboards, and governance tools all have value, but governance won't fix a poorly designed system — misplaced data and bad application architecture remain broken no matter how much oversight you layer on. Treat cloud reports as narrative, not market truth.
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