Every story tagged Cloud Modernization, curated for CIOs and IT leaders — ranked by source credibility, engagement, and freshness.
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Despite significant cloud modernization advances—including more granular compute models, increased autoscaling adoption, and managed services—resource utilization has remained stagnant, with 72% of Kubernetes workloads still using less than 50% of requested CPU capacity. This persistent underutilization suggests the problem is structural rather than technical, indicating that platform improvements alone cannot drive efficiency gains, and the resulting waste has compounding cost implications through normalized budgets and inflated cloud forecasts. For IT leaders, this reveals a critical gap between infrastructure modernization and operational discipline, requiring a shift from technology-focused solutions to governance and rightsizing practices.