Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it

Most enterprises didn't deliberately choose hybrid cloud—they stumbled into it through acquisitions and edge deployments, each arriving with its own provisioning, security, and monitoring stack. The Register reports that the result operates like three people in a trench coat: unified on the surface but actually separate silos for provisioning, security, monitoring, and cost management. The fix isn't another management console. It's a unified operating model built on workload-first placement—analyzing each workload's performance needs, data sensitivity, compliance requirements, and cost, then housing it where it belongs. When organizations manage provisioning, security, and observability consistently across distributed infrastructure, hybrid cloud stops feeling broken and becomes genuinely manageable.

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