Taming Hybrid, Mastering FinOps & Building Future-Ready Infrastructure for AI at Scale

Gabby Fredkin, Head of Analytics & Insights at ADAPT highlights that over the next 12 months, infrastructure strategies will be shaped by three key focus areas. These are, rethinking workload management, restructuring teams and skill development, and deepening business engagement. Many organisations are reconsidering their cloud strategies, with a notable increase in those repatriating workloads from public cloud to private or hybrid environments. This shift is driven by cost control, compliance, risk management and operational efficiency. The trend is evident in core applications like ERP and CRM, as well as in data storage and backup. As hybrid cloud becomes the norm, organisations must deal with increased complexity, requiring a sharper focus on interoperability and architecture that aligns with business value.

Managing multi-cloud environments brings significant operational challenges. Most organisations operate across three to five cloud environments, but the majority lack unification across them. This results in manual processes, limited visibility,…