Notes from Practice

This blog is a collection of practitioner notes from real Cloud migration, Governance, and Digital Transformation programs.

I focus on how organizations make technology decisions - where Cloud strategies fail, where costs grow unexpectedly, how governance models break, and how change actually happens inside complex IT systems.

Some of these notes were also published on CloudTweaks.

Line chart of cloud and on-premise TCO over five years, with the cloud exit turning point marked at year 3

Cloud Exit Economics: Real-World ROI and Financial Models

Why are some companies moving to the cloud, while others are leaving it?
After a decade of leading both Cloud Migrations and Cloud Exits, I’ve seen the financial reality behind each. This article breaks down real ROI models across startups, mid-size firms, and enterprises – showing when cloud makes sense, and when it doesn’t.

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