Taking Complexity out of the Cloud

The cloud brings great opportunities and great trials. Cloud complexity is challenging to say the least, leading to slower innovation and greater risk and waste. What is needed is a unified approach to managing infrastructure and security across the lifecycle of a hybrid cloud. For today’s blog, let’s explore the challenges we currently face—and the opportunities that lie ahead, if we take careful and strategic steps forward.

Roughly 52% of organizations rank multi/hybrid cloud complexity among their top three infrastructure cloud-management challenges and 73% report their platform engineering team and security personnel do not work as a unified function. This is according to the 2025 Cloud Complexity Report from HashiCorp, an IBM Co.

So, what then is the next step? How can we take complexity out of the cloud? Do we need to consider unified lifecycle management? Let’s take a peek behind the curtain for ...