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 better with a hefty dose of private data center investments because, um, some choose to “more shrewdly optimize their applications and expenses by matching the right application with the right environment” (a little Dell sophistry for you). They point to this report or that survey that finds some large percentage of CIOs plan to repatriate workloads due to cost, security, etc.