Cloud waste went up in 2026. After five consecutive years of decline, the percentage of cloud spend that organizations waste rose from 27% to 29%, driven by AI workload complexity and teams provisioning GPU capacity they do not fully use (Flexera…
Healthcare cloud managed services: what to look for and what to avoid
In early 2025, Oracle Health disclosed that hackers accessed patient data from a legacy Cerner server that had not been migrated to Oracle Cloud. Up to 80 hospitals were affected. Oracle’s response was slow, communication was limited, and healthcare CIOs were…
DevOps in healthcare: how to ship faster without breaking compliance
Healthcare software teams average a release every four months. Fintech ships weekly. SaaS companies ship daily. The gap is not because healthcare code is harder to write. It is because most healthcare organizations treat HIPAA compliance as a manual gate that…
FinOps vs Cost Optimization: Why FinOps Is More Than Cost Reduction
Most teams doing cloud cost reviews believe they have FinOps covered. Cost optimization is part of it – but only part. The gap between the two is where cloud bills quietly climb back up. Your cloud bill went up again. You…
Kubernetes alternatives: what to use when K8s is overkill
92% of organizations use or evaluate Kubernetes. 96% of those who evaluate it end up adopting it (ReleaseRun: Kubernetes Statistics and Adoption Trends 2026). Those numbers make it sound like the decision is already made for you. But 91% of Kubernetes…
Cloud transformation services: what they actually include and how to avoid a failed migration
Global cloud spending hit $679 billion in 2026, a 29% jump from 2025. 94% of enterprises use cloud services in some form. 87% run multi-cloud (MedhaCloud: 55 Cloud Computing Statistics 2026). And yet, 70% of cloud transformation projects fail to meet…
