InfoWorld reports:
Don't pay attention to it now. However, 25% of organizations surveyed in the UK have already moved more than half of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructure. That's according to a recent survey by Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, which asked 350 IT leaders about their current approach to cloud computing. The survey also revealed that 93% of respondents had participated in a cloud repatriation project in the past three years. That is because there are many returnees. why?
Security concerns and high project expectations are the top motivations (33%) for relocating some cloud-based workloads to on-premises infrastructure such as enterprise data centers, colocation providers, and managed service providers (MSPs). It has been reported. Another important factor was not meeting internal expectations (24%). Those surveyed also mentioned unexpected costs, performance issues, compatibility issues, and service downtime. The most common motivation for repatriation that I have seen is cost. In this survey, more than 43% of IT leaders feel that moving applications and data from on-premises to the cloud is more expensive than expected.
Although not included in the survey, the costs of running applications and storing data in the cloud are also significantly higher than most businesses expected. The cost-benefit analysis of cloud versus on-premises infrastructure varies widely from organization to organization. The cloud is suitable for modern applications that utilize a group of services such as serverless, containers, and clustering. However, this does not describe most enterprise applications.
“Don't pity public cloud providers,” the article warns.
“Loss from repatriation will soon be replaced by the massive infrastructure needed to build and run AI-based systems…As I've said several times here, the Cloud Conference will become the genAI Conference; It will continue for several years.”
