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In tech, we often talk of technology lifecycles, but sometimes that cycle can feel more like a swinging pendulum. Take the rush from on-premises data infrastructure to the full throttle shift to the cloud for example. For a while there if you weren’t moving all your workloads and data to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud your peers started to look at you like you were crazy. Why wouldn’t you? It switched Capex to Opex, it was elastic as your demand level changed and the management overhead (in theory) was meant to be low. More recently though we’re seeing that pendulum swing back to a more rational state of equilibrium, a hybrid world unifying the best of both worlds. In fact IDC report that 80% of organizations are now undertaking some level of cloud data repatriation activities. It’s at these “inflection points” in technology where key strategic choices need to be made, and the quality of those decisions will have a lasting impact on your organization. And let’s be clear. You can be sure that Amazon, Microsoft and Google have not missed that fact either. Three Drivers that underpin Data Repatriation There are really three key reasons we see that underpin such a big shift back from a “pure play” cloud strategy – and for different kinds of organizations the priority between these is different. |
