Hybrid-cloud has become the operating model of choice for enterprises. Yet, as adoption accelerates, many organizations discover that complexity often arrives faster than value. In fact, 78% of organizations in 2025 list cloud cost optimization as their top priority because inefficiencies in hybrid setups have become so widespread.
Here are five of the most common mistakes—and how iValue helps enterprises avoid them.
Mistake 1: Underestimating Hybrid Cloud Costs
Many enterprises still approach hybrid-cloud budgeting with the same mindset they used for on-prem infrastructure—fixed and predictable. The reality is far messier. Data transfer fees, idle workloads, and duplicate tools quickly multiply costs. Gartner recently noted that 80% of enterprises overspend on cloud by at least 20–30%.
Take a retail enterprise moving customer analytics into the cloud. Without visibility, workloads run overnight even when demand is low. Over time, costs balloon without adding business value.
iValue’s perspective:
Cost management must evolve into continuous discipline (FinOps). By working with partners like GCP and SUSE, iValue helps enterprises create transparency around spend, optimize workloads, and make financial operations a strategic part of IT.
Mistake 2: Underestimating Latency in Hybrid Environments
Poorly designed integrations between on-premises and cloud systems create latency, bottlenecks, and reduced agility. For example, a logistics company that relies on real-time tracking can’t afford delays caused by traffic between multiple cloud regions and an on-prem ERP system. Latency of even a few seconds compounds into missed service-level commitments.
iValue’s perspective:
Hybrid networks require deliberate design. Through technology ecosystems such as Cloudflare and Imperva, iValue helps create performance-optimized application delivery that balances speed with resilience.
Mistake 3: Believing One Platform Can Do It All
Locking into a single hybrid-cloud platform may feel like a simplification, but it often becomes a long-term constraint. Enterprises that embraced “all-in-one” stacks find themselves struggling when business needs evolve faster than the platform roadmap.
Banks, for instance, need to innovate at a pace dictated by regulatory change and customer expectations. A rigid environment makes rolling out new compliance-ready features painfully slow.
iValue’s perspective:
The future lies in modular, open architectures. By leveraging partnerships with OpenText and SUSE, iValue enables organizations to adopt a building-block approach—scaling up or down based on business need rather than vendor dictates.
Mistake 4: Assuming Multi-Cloud Is Too Comple
The fear of vendor lock-in is real, but many enterprises avoid multi-cloud because of perceived complexity. The irony is that reliance on one provider often results in higher costs and weaker negotiating power.
A healthcare provider that placed all workloads on a single cloud found itself constrained by regional compliance limits. When data residency requirements changed, shifting workloads was more expensive than diversifying from the start.
iValue’s perspective:
Multi-cloud is not about spreading workloads everywhere; it’s about strategic distribution with unified governance. iValue helps enterprises architect environments where flexibility doesn’t come at the expense of control.
Mistake 5: Assuming Cloud Redundancy Equals Resilience
One of the most dangerous assumptions is believing that the cloud’s built-in redundancy is the same as enterprise-grade disaster recovery. Outages at hyperscalers prove otherwise—when a provider goes down, so does every dependent service.
In 2024, a major global outage disrupted streaming services and payment gateways simultaneously, underscoring how costly downtime can be. Enterprises without a hybrid backup and recovery strategy struggled to restore business continuity.
iValue’s perspective:
True resilience requires layered protection. By integrating backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience into hybrid architectures, iValue helps enterprises safeguard mission-critical systems against both outages and cyberattacks.
Hybrid-Cloud is a great way to introduce efficiency into a system, but when not set up well it turns into a governance nightmare. With 90% of organizations expected to run hybrid-cloud by 2027, enterprises that solve these challenges now will gain agility, resilience, and cost efficiency.
As regulators such as SEBI with its Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF) mandate higher standards of resilience, and as enterprises pursue data modernization to fuel growth, the cost of outdated approaches is too high.
The opportunity lies in using hybrid-cloud not just as infrastructure but as a foundation for trust, compliance, and innovation. Enterprises that anticipate these mistakes and invest in modern ALM can transform cloud from a source of complexity into a driver of clarity and resilience.
At iValue, our role is to help enterprises navigate this shift—aligning hybrid-cloud architectures with compliance, security, and modernization goals that matter today and tomorrow.
