February 23, 2026
For years, IT teams have been promised that cloud-first strategies, zero trust, and automation would simplify management and reduce risk. Instead, many organizations are dealing with greater complexity, less visibility, uncontrolled application growth, and a widening gap between security strategy and daily operations.
In this VMblog Q&A, Recast Director of Product Nash Pherson explores why these issues persist. He discusses stalled cloud adoption patterns, the difficulty of putting privilege management into practice, and application delivery emerging as a critical blocker to both security and productivity.
Originally published in VMblog.
Excerpt: “Progress often comes from looking at existing complexity and slowly improving visibility, reliability, and consistency versus attempting large-scale replacement initiatives.”
