The great repatriation? IT leaders reset cloud strategies to optimize value [Video]

CIOs continue to move workloads back from the public cloud, but their moves represent a refinement of their cloud strategies — not a rejection of the cloud itself.

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IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations.

And he has seen some respond by moving workloads from the cloud back to on-premises data centers, a move they feel gives them better control over costs and privacy standards.

He worked with one insurance company that in 2023 made such a move, driven specifically by the desire to have a firm hold on its regulated data, for example.

Chege, now CEO and principal consultant of Digital Transformation Experts, says he has worked with other companies that have made similar moves. They, too, were motivated by data privacy issues, cost considerations, compliance concerns, and latency issues.

He cites …