The Post-Cloud Data Center: Back In Fashion, But Not Like Before
CIO, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
For most of the last decade, I watched enterprise infrastructure strategy follow a simple arc: abstract complexity, speed up provisioning, move as much as possible into the cloud. That shift delivered real value.
It shortened deployment cycles, empowered product teams and removed capital friction that had slowed change.
Cloud did not eliminate the need for physical infrastructure. It only postponed the moment when we would need to think about it again.
That moment is here.