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Have You Hugged Your Server Today

ITProToday, Thursday, February 15th, 2024

Despite the mass migration to the cloud, there are still scenarios when keeping your data on-premises is the better - and often necessary - choice.

While over the past few years there has been a massive shift for companies to move data to the cloud for ease of use, cost savings, scalability, and more, there are still advantages to storing certain data workloads on-premises. Why? This could be for better performance, to meet regulations and compliance laws, to enhance security, or to have more local control over data for day-to-day operations.

We could apply the old saying here that "everything old is new again." After years of moving data center workloads and applications to cloud environments, some organizations are repatriating parts of their workloads back to local data center infrastructure.

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