Leaders Roundtable: Driving Hybrid Cloud Control & Intelligent Operations in New Zealand

Hybrid cloud is now the default operating model for most organisations in New Zealand. However, many organisations continue to manage these environments through fragmented operating models and legacy virtualisation platforms, creating challenges around visibility, consistency, and control. As cloud repatriation, sovereignty requirements, and AI-driven workloads reshape infrastructure priorities, organisations are re-evaluating how hybrid environments are structured and governed to support future demands.

Ecosystm research highlights a clear imbalance in how organisations are approaching hybrid cloud: strong focus on adoption and resilience, but slower progress in the operational and economic capabilities needed to run these environments efficiently at scale.

• 57% prioritise cloud & business resilience in modernisation programmes
• 73% expect to increase hybrid cloud investment over the next year
• Yet only 34% are prioritising Cloud & AIOps, limiting their ability to optimise performance, cost & operational efficiency

As AI and agentic workloads scale, hybrid environments are expanding faster than the operating models designed to manage them, creating fragmentation across control and visibility. A unified CloudOps approach addresses this by bringing automation, observability, and cost management into a single operating layer, enabling faster provisioning, tighter control, and automated remediation without major infrastructure change.

Join us for an invitation-only leaders roundtable exploring how New Zealand organisations are evolving their operating models to manage increasingly complex hybrid environments. In a closed peer discussion, we will focus on practical approaches to improving consistency, visibility, and control across hybrid cloud operations.

The discussion will cover:

• Reducing Operational Friction. How organisations are reducing reactive workload through greater automation and standardisation of hybrid operations
• Converging Cloud Operations. Moving from fragmented processes toward a unified operating approach across hybrid environments
• Making Cost & Usage Visible. Strengthening financial control through clearer visibility into consumption, inefficiencies, and ROI
• Operating Hybrid Under AI Demand. How CloudOps and AIOps are evolving as AI workloads place new pressure on infrastructure and operations