By now, the benefits of the cloud are well known: reduced costs, improved scalability, increased efficiency, and more agility. But not all enterprise applications, workloads, and data are suited for it. Compliance and security issues prevent moving some to the public cloud, while complex dependencies among applications won’t allow others to run there. In some cases, it is financially unfeasible or impractical to move them.
However, on-premises applications can get all of the benefits of the public cloud by moving to an on-premises consumption model. I call this having the cloud come to you.
