Cloud strategy decisions are no longer viewed as a binary choice between public and private. Guided by realworld experience, economic pressures, growing workload demands and a heightened need to safeguard both the business and its customers, a type of “cloud reset” is taking place within organizations, suggest findings from a VMware survey of IT decision makers. Traditionally, public cloud services have been considered the default destination for cloud workloads. But data from respondents shows how enterprises have become more likely to pick cloud environments based on workload attributes, matching each workload with the cloud environment that best meets its requirements. This “shift,” showed VMware’s findings, often is placing private cloud at the center of businesses’ strategies. A full 93 percent of respondents, for example, deliberately balance a mix of private and public clouds, and their top three-year priority is building new workloads in private clouds. At the same time, 69 percent are considering repatriating workloads from public cloud to private, with one-third having already done so. “The choice between public and private cloud is now determined by which cloud best meets a specific requirement, representing a distinct change from prior ‘cloud-first’ strategies,” said VMware researchers. “Because of this workload-first mindset, expectations for private cloud have risen,” said the report. Private cloud historically was associated with legacy or traditional applications, while public cloud was seen as the go-to solution for modern workloads, VMware executives explained. Yet today, 84 percent of organizations run both traditional and cloud-native applications in private clouds, dispelling its legacy image. What’s more, when asked which environments would be considered the most preferred for modern container or Kubernetes workloads, the responses were evenly split across public cloud, private cloud and both. “Today’s private cloud platforms have matured to support workloads What’s Working Well Public Cloud Private Cloud Scalability 84% Security 81% Reliable performance 84% Reliable performance 81% Simplification of IT/ operations 83% Simplification of IT/ operations 78% Source: VMware by Broadcom 44 CHANNELVISION | SUMMER 2025 EDGE TO CLOUD Cloud Reset Private cloud takes a larger role in a ‘workload-first’ world By Martin Vilaboy
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