Barclays sees private cloud plans up 40% since nearly doubling since H2 2020
Enterprise CIOs surveyed by Barclays are apparently rethinking cloud strategies. In the second half of 2020, 43% of leaders surveyed were planning to bring workloads from the public cloud back on-premises to private cloud infrastructure. That number in the first half of this year jumped to 83%.
During his keynote presentation at the recent VMware Explore event in Las Vegas, Nevada, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan referenced the figure in the context of VMware’s private cloud/private AI strategy. And other executives took notice.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell embraced brevity in his take. “Not surprising,” he tweeted with a screenshot from the VMware by Broadcom event. Steve Canepa, IBM’s global managing director for signature accounts, wrote on LinkedIn, also with a screenshot of the graph, that it’s an “aha moment” indicative that “we’ve crossed into a new era” of hybrid cloud.
He continued to delineate key considerations driving cloud repatriation: security, data residency, latency, automation and efficiency. “The myth of cloud first is toast…When the meter never stops spinning, rational thinking eventually emerges.”
Tan, in his keynote, said prolonged movement into the public cloud has given enterprise IT professionals “PTSD. You’re confronting the three Cs of public cloud,” cost, complexity and compliance. All of which, he said, are better addressed with private cloud.
“Here’s my view,” he continued. “The future of the enterprise, your enterprises, is private. Private cloud, private AI, fueled by your own private data. It’s about staying on prem and in control.” Public cloud will still play a role in supporting elastic demand and bursting workloads, but “in this hybrid world, the private cloud is now the platform to drive your business and your innovation,” Tan said. “And we have work to do to make that happen.”
