Is there really a march from the public cloud back onprem?

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  • It turns out that the cloud is expensive, and the more workloads you move to the cloud, the more it costs.
  • Looking ahead, we continue to forecast strong growth in the cloud market and weak growth in on-prem infrastructure.”
  • But even if you were wrong on that point, it’s the agility of the public cloud that has always been its primary value proposition.Think back for a second to the bad old days of on-prem, when you had to plan for capacity.
  • Go figure.When we were in the “growth at all costs” phase between 2021 and 2022, it was easy to ignore or minimize the costs associated with operating in the cloud.
  • If it’s truly so expensive and difficult, how does it make sense for companies to do that?I decided to explore if companies really want to move back on-prem.
  • Why did you move to the cloud in the first place?
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