Your cloud bill isn’t the problem. Your operating model is

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The cloud migration era is over. The harder part has begun.

Most large enterprises have moved their workloads. Far fewer have changed the way they run them. Now, with multicloud estates sprawling, agentic AI arriving and legacy ERP platforms still carrying the business, CIOs are being asked to optimize, modernize and secure everything at once, without breaking anything that makes money today.

Satyendra Pasalapudi, CEO of digi edZe, has watched this pattern play out across more than 26 years in enterprise technology. His diagnosis is blunt, and it starts with a gap most boardrooms don’t see on a dashboard.

“Most enterprises migrated their workloads but never migrated their operating model. They built the business case on elasticity, then carried on with datacentre habits: static sizing, capacity bought in advance, change windows.” The consequence, he says, is easy to state and expensive to live with: “cloud pricing for datacentre behaviour,...

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