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Patchwork IT tearing at the seams – Time for businesses to reclaim control

Aaron White
Aaron White • 4 min read
Patchwork IT tearing at the seams – Time for businesses to reclaim control
Organisations are grappling with an exponential increase in the number of applications and continued database sprawl. Photo: Unsplash
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When the pandemic first hit our shores, organisations of all shapes and sizes scrambled to enable remote work in the public cloud – cobbling together a hodgepodge of IT solutions to fix holes in the roof. However, their haste to make things work has created new challenges. From data sprawl to spiralling costs due to unfettered cloud use, business and IT leaders can agree that moving ahead with patchwork IT will only make things worse.

Thus, as businesses prepare to tackle headwinds in 2023 – ranging from macroeconomic uncertainties to growing inflationary pressures – they must reclaim control of their cloud infrastructure to successfully build robust, adaptive organisations and scale, while controlling costs.

IT infrastructures begin to unravel due to soaring costs and data sprawl

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