By ITWeb
Publication Date: 2026-07-07 06:48:00
Helen Kruger, CEO of Troye. (Image: Troye)
The biggest mistake CIOs make about cloud is believing that adoption equals modernisation. It does not. In many cases, cloud has simply given them a more expensive, more fragmented and harder to manage version of the infrastructure problems they were trying to escape.
This is becoming a serious issue as CIOs rush to support AI-enabled services, cloud-native applications, virtual desktops, hybrid workforces and data-intensive platforms. These workloads were not designed for outdated infrastructure thinking.
They demand secure access, consistent performance, simplified management, strong data protection and the ability to scale across private, public and hybrid environments without creating operational chaos.
Yet many cloud strategies are still built around hosting rather than application delivery. Businesses ask where workloads should run, but not whether users can access those applications securely, whether performance will remain consistent,…
