The Hybrid Cloud Boomerang: What's Different About Today's Data Centers
InformationWeek, Monday, June 30th, 2025
Some were born in the public cloud and want to move to the data center, but have no idea where to start. Others already moved in the opposite direction (data center to public cloud), but now realize it's not all it's cracked up to be.
You've probably heard that 83% of CIOs have plans to bring workloads back from the public cloud this year. But that doesn't mean everyone's returning to an old-school, on-prem approach -- in fact, fewer than 10% of those moving workloads plan to go fully on-prem.
The cloud repatriation movement we're seeing right now is largely a movement of 'going hybrid': shifting from an all-in public cloud position to a combination of public cloud, private cloud, and co-located hosting, typically with the support of a managed services partner.