Archive of posts from 2025

The End of the Hyperscale Honeymoon

The End of the Hyperscale Honeymoon

Tim Kounadis
Read Time 5 min Read

For years, “just put it all in the public cloud” seemed safe. Hyperscale platforms offered limitless scale, global reach, and rapid innovation, especially in AI. But as bills rose and architectures grew complex, many realized an uncomfortable truth: hyperscale-only isn’t truly a cloud strategy. It’s just what organizations have defaulted to – and it’s becoming expensive. Today, 84% of...

Why Most AI Strategies Fail (And What Actually Works)

Why Most AI Strategies Fail (And What Actually Works)

Bradley Reynolds
Read Time 4 min Read

AI works. The problem? Most companies are drowning in complexity trying to make it work. Shockingly, research shows the average organization has 254 AI apps in use, whether they know it or not 3. So assuming your AI maturity is about average, then 93% of your employees are already using generative AI without telling anyone. And...

Expedient Becomes the First Service Provider to Achieve Nutanix 'Premier' Designation

Expedient Becomes the First Service Provider to Achieve Nutanix 'Premier' Designation

Sam Larson
Read Time 2 min Read

Expedient has achieved Premier designation in Nutanix’s Service Provider partner program, becoming the first company to do so. Premier status sits at the top of Nutanix’s partner ecosystem. It requires partners to demonstrate advanced technical certifications, documented customer outcomes, and deep strategic...

Beyond Cloud First: Why Cloud Smart Is the Right Strategy for 2026

Beyond Cloud First: Why Cloud Smart Is the Right Strategy for 2026

Tim Kounadis
Read Time 8 min Read

Remember the early days of cloud computing? Initially, the “cloud-first” approach was promoted as an innovation strategy. A lot has happened since. But today “cloud-first” is currently seen by many as a challenging budget problem. CFOs are asking: How much of our IT budget is spent just keeping the lights on? How much is wasted by improper cloud model...

How To Move From AI Hype to Everyday Productivity

How To Move From AI Hype to Everyday Productivity

Bradley Reynolds
Read Time 7 min Read

Practical, Safe Entry Points for Businesses For many organizations, AI still feels like a high-stakes gamble, with big promises but also big questions, especially around security, compliance, and ROI. Compounding the urgency to come up with a solution is the fact that employees are already using public AI tools to accomplish their work, often daily, without any safety or...

Storage Optionality Comes to Expedient Nutanix Private Cloud

Storage Optionality Comes to Expedient Nutanix Private Cloud

Sam Larson
Read Time 4 min Read

Partnership with Pure Storage offers flexibility, three-tier architecture using FlashArray For organizations seeking greater storage flexibility, Nutanix and Pure Storage have partnered on a new integrated solution that powers mission-critical workloads. Given our close relationship with both companies, Expedient was chosen as a design partner in that process to help evaluate and test the new offering. Today, after months...

The Great Rebalancing Begins: Why VMware Disruption Is Just the Start

The Great Rebalancing Begins: Why VMware Disruption Is Just the Start

Tim Kounadis
Read Time 6 min Read

The past year has significantly impacted the technology industry. Changes to VMware licensing and partner structures have disrupted pricing and challenged long-standing beliefs about what makes up a stable enterprise infrastructure. For most companies relying on VMware, once-predictable cloud strategies now...

The Hidden Risk of Shadow AI – and How to Regain Control

The Hidden Risk of Shadow AI – and How to Regain Control

Bryan Smith
Read Time 5 min Read

Nearly all businesses are in a race to utilize AI to optimize operations, reduce costs, and stay competitive. But a growing internal risk is largely overlooked: the unsanctioned, uncontrolled usage of public AI tools by employees, commonly called Shadow AI.

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