Key Takeaways As enterprise data grows, data gravity makes it harder and more expensive to move, impacting where organizations run applications, how AI accesses their data, and how to build the infrastructure needed to support them both. Decisions around legacy systems, cloud spend, and AI are more connected than ever because every choice for...
Most modernization narratives focus on infrastructure efficiency or cleaning up yesterday’s problems of technical debt. An alternative view on the challenge businesses face in 2026 is the misalignment between how a business wants to operate and what its digital foundation is prepared to support....
Technology complexity isn’t the barrier to modernization. Instead, overly customized environments are leaving businesses stuck in corner solutions. Over decades, IT teams created exceptions: custom integrations and ad hoc fixes on legacy systems. These created unique and fragile “snowflake environments,” making modernization lengthy...