Forrester says the cloud market is moving beyond commodity infrastructure toward **AI-native cloud** platforms designed for generative and agentic AI. It also highlights emerging categories such as AI infrastructure cloud platforms and AI-centric platform-as-a-service models, with storage becoming a strategic decision point for autonomous AI use cases.
TITEL: Hybrid, Multicloud, and AI Workloads Continue to Dominate Cloud Trends
URL: https://www.cloudwards.net/cloud-computing-trends/
SAMENVATTING: Cloudwards lists multicloud, hybrid cloud, increased use of PaaS/SaaS/IaaS, AI-driven cloud computing, and serverless computing among the top cloud trends for 2026. These trends reflect enterprises’ push for flexibility, modernization, and support for AI-heavy workloads.
TITEL: Cloud Spending Pressure Is Driving FinOps and Governance
URL: https://www.flexera.com/blog/finops/the-latest-cloud-computing-trends-flexera-2025-state-of-the-cloud-report/
SAMENVATTING: Flexera reports that **59%** of organizations now have a dedicated FinOps team, up from 51% the year before, showing stronger cost-management discipline. The same report says more than half of workloads are already in public cloud, with continued migration expected and ongoing competition between AWS and Azure.
TITEL: Microsoft Prioritizes Cyber Hygiene and Modern Security Standards
URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/12/04/cybersecurity-strategies-to-prioritize-now/
SAMENVATTING: Microsoft recommends prioritizing essential cyber hygiene basics alongside modern security standards, products, and protocols. This aligns with broader guidance emphasizing MFA, patching, least-privilege access, and layered defenses.
TITEL: CISA Says MFA and Backups Are Core Cybersecurity Defenses
URL: https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cybersecurity-best-practices
SAMENVATTING: CISA identifies strong passwords, software updates, suspicious-link awareness, and **multi-factor authentication** as the basics of “cyber hygiene.” Its other guidance also stresses keeping multiple copies of important files, including one off-site or in the cloud, to improve resilience.
https://www.forrester.com/blogs/category/cloud-computing/
