The cloud is not an adjunct to your IT estate. It is the full-stack endgame of your technology capabilities, your operational engine, and your application breeding ground. The economic pressures of 2023 give you the perfect opportunity to overcome the sprawl and redundancy of your cloud investments, but that can only be part of your plan. Now is the time to harness innovation driven by cloud-native technologies; modernize cloud security with Zero Trust; and drive agile and DevOps-based modern technology operations — all while curbing escalating cloud costs. This report gives CIOs a game plan for cloud in 2023.