Tag: Cloud Repatriation

May 24, 2024

The tech industry is buzzing with talk of cloud repatriation, partly due to some articles I have written here. What frustrates me about this industry is the lack of nuance. People make everything seem like drastic shifts. The last example […]

November 9, 2023

Cloud complaints come in all shapes and sizes. Usage-based pricing and data egress charges lead to mounting monthly bills, eating away at projected savings. Hopes of a sleek, streamlined IT ecosystem are easily dashed by SaaS sprawl and interoperability issues. […]

August 9, 2023

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about “cloud repatriation.” The idea isn’t new; Dropbox abandoned AWS in 2015, 37Signals announced they were backing out last October, and there has been a flurry of articles about repatriation in the trade […]

May 12, 2023

A 2022 study carried out by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that 62% of firms use third-party cloud-cost estimation tools. This included software to compare potential costs of different public cloud providers. The impact of these finops tools was clear […]

April 21, 2023

My January post on cloud repatriation seems to have struck some nerves. Indeed, I found the reactions a bit polarized when they should not have been. Cloud repatriation is about making unemotional decisions as to where to locate applications and […]

April 10, 2023

Deciding to repatriate your cloud workload back on-prem can feel like a defeat. Typically, businesses undertake repatriation because running workloads in the cloud turned out not to deliver the performance, cost or security results they were hoping for – so […]

March 1, 2023

Most IT leaders have assets moved to the cloud to achieve some combination of better, faster, or cheaper compute and storage services. They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop […]

January 3, 2023

Here’s a topic we don’t discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise data centers from a public cloud provider as an admission that someone made a big mistake moving […]

November 14, 2022

With the global economy in meltdown, you might think it’s time to hunker down with your private data center, bringing workloads back from the cloud (“repatriation”) to save money. You’ve heard the marketing spiel: Cloud is great but it’s even […]

April 23, 2020

The cloud undoubtedly offers a range of potential advantages for the enterprise. This survey of 166 IT leaders reveals that 61 percent say cost efficiency is the primary goal of implementing cloud, with the benefit of new features and capabilities […]