18 CHANNELVISION | MARCH - APRIL 2024 The trend is mostly occurring among large organizations that rushed into the cloud before or during the pandemic. It also applies to cloud-native companies that are investing in on-premises storage and computing resources. While it’s highly unlikely that repatriation will turn into a large-scale exodus from the cloud, the latest data suggests that repatriation is becoming more popular. A recent Citrix study reveals that 42 percent of organizations surveyed in the U.S. are either considering or have already moved at least half of their cloudbased workloads back to on-premises infrastructures, while 94 percent of IT leaders have been involved with a cloud repatriation project in the last three years. The top drivers for moving cloud-based workloads back on-premises include unexpected security issues (41 percent), high project expectations (29 percent) and failure to meet or properly set internal expectations (23 percent). Of course, cloud adoption is still accelerating — especially among small organizations that lack the resources or desire to build and maintain private data centers. “To be clear, the cloud isn’t going anywhere,” said Veritas senior vice president of global VIRTUAL REALITIES Interest in cloud repatriation is growing, with companies strategically migrating workloads back to on-premises environments By Gerald Baldino Repatriation Realities
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