Cloud success is increasingly measured by the value it delivers, though wasted spend climbed as GenAI adoption accelerated. The Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report, based on responses from 753 cloud decision-makers, shows how hybrid estates, AI workloads, and centralized governance are reshaping cloud economics. ☁️ Read the article for the findings that matter most to your cloud strategy.

Nearly all enterprises say their networks are ready for cloud and AI, yet IT teams average 11.5 hours a week resolving connectivity issues. New DE-CIX research from Censuswide, covering more than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers in the US and UK, names latency, security vulnerabilities, and downtime as the leading cloud connectivity challenges, and finds 61% of enterprises already using private connectivity to clouds. 🔌 Read the article to see how direct interconnection changes what your network delivers for AI workloads.

The AI race is increasingly becoming an execution race. Giving employees access to AI is one thing. Embedding it into workflows in ways that measurably improve performance is another. MarketScale's "Top AI users are pulling 8.3x ahead, and GPU budgets are spreading everywhere" reports that the top 10% of enterprise AI adopters are generating 8.3 times more output per active user than typical firms. The article explores why workflow penetration, data foundations, coordination, and effective use of increasingly shared GPU resources may help explain the widening gap.

Cloud resilience has traditionally relied heavily on geographic redundancy within a provider. Larger regional disruptions are challenging that assumption. InformationWeek's "Regional Cloud Outages Demand Multi-Cloud Resilience Strategies" argues that organizations should think more deliberately about provider portability, prebuilt cross-cloud connectivity, and automated failover to maintain business continuity when an entire region is affected.