Forrester: Rising Infrastructure Costs Aren’t A Blip — They’re A Reset

Over the past several months, I’ve gotten a sharp uptick in questions from infrastructure leaders trying to make sense of rising infrastructure costs. The questions are all variations of the same theme: What’s actually driving this? Is it temporary? And what — realistically — can we do about it?

The short answer is that this isn’t a cyclical blip or a transient supply issue. It’s a structural shift in how compute, memory, and storage capacity are produced, allocated, and priced — and it has durable implications for enterprise infrastructure planning.

What’s changed is not just cost. It’s access.