Cloud In The Age Of AI: Six Things To Consider
CIO, Thursday, June 19th, 2025
AI-ready organizations need to consider factors such as value, scalability, data sovereignty and sustainability as they weigh up infrastructure options including cloud computing, on-premise data center and edge computing.
Recently I spoke to a senior leader of a Europe-based global consumer goods business, and they said that they had always believed that fundamentally cloud would be more efficient than the alternatives. That in a globalized economy pooling resources on infrastructure would always work out to be cheaper in the end. And that they no longer believe that!
In part that is due to plain old capitalism: cloud vendors make money. So once customers are dependent on them, costs increase. If cloud was always more efficient, Fin Ops wouldn't be a thing.