Private Cloud Makes Its Comeback, Thanks To AI
CIO, Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Cost uncertainty and AI data leak fears have CIOs rethinking cloud strategies in the coming AI era, with a hybrid mix the likely long-term solution for balancing experimentation, cost control, and data security.
Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today's generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passe in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds - either on-premises or hosted by a partner - a second look.
At the center of this shift is increasing acknowledgement that to support AI workloads and to contain costs, enterprises long-term will land on a hybrid mix of public and private cloud.
'With how fast things are changing in the data and cloud space, we believe in a hybrid model of cloud and data center strategy,' says Jim Stathopoulos, SVP and CIO of Sun Country Airlines, who came to the regional airliner from United Airlines in early 2023 and inherited a Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and Databricks AI platform but is open minded about future IT decisions.