Rob Hirschfeld and I had a fascinating conversation during #KubeCon about self-hosted and #baremetal infrastructure, which has become a hot topic amid predictions that enterprises will move #AIinference to self-hosted machines. But Rob, who's had a front-row seat to these conversations for more than a decade as CEO and co-founder of RackN told me that #AI is not yet the biggest factor in #cloudrepatriation. And there's a lot that enterprises don't know about the details of moving back to self-hosted infrastructure from #publiccloud and back to bare metal from #VMware.

Rob was kind enough to repeat himself during this interview for the #ITOps Query #vodcast, just published today. I think my audience will find the discussion as fascinating as I did.

https://youtu.be/uoDKcsUNwAk?si=jp26490G4JLpmPjP

Have you defined your organization’s cloud exit strategy? Let’s share playbooks and pitfalls. Drop your story or questions below. #CloudExitStrategy #DigitalTransformationLeadership #CIOPriorities #EmergingTechnologyStrategy #CloudGovernance #ITOperatingModel #CloudRepatriation #DataDrivenIT #ModernITLeadership
https://medium.com/@sanjay.mohindroo66/cloud-exit-strategy-why-every-it-leader-needs-one-0b8cc27612d7

Interesting article about moving away from the public cloud for once. "Cloud repatriation is the process of reverse-migrating application workloads and data from the public cloud to a private cloud located within an on-premises data center or to a colocation provider"
https://www.eetimes.eu/cloud-repatriation-on-the-rise-83-of-cios-plan-workload-shifts-in-2024/
#cloud #cloudrepatriation #privatecloud

I have seen quite a few cloud repatriation projects. The reasons were manifold, from costs and control to digital sovereignty and privacy. Yet, it is vital to monitor the changing requirements of these projects.
#cybersecurity #cloudrepatriation
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/03/cloud-repatriation-impacts-on-resources-and-cybersecurity/

#SymLink: This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast explores the growing trend of cloud repatriation, where businesses are shifting applications from public clouds to on-premises datacenters to save costs, increase control, and leverage in-house tools like Kubernetes and OpenShift. @GestaltIT @sfoskett #Cloud #CloudRepatriation
https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/cloud-repatriation-is-really-happening/

Prediction: at least 90% of orgs doing "cloud repatriation" (aka "how hard can it be to run some infrastructure, ffs?") are going to get a nasty shock when they re-discover all the reasons that people moved to cloud in the first place: running infrastructure at even modest scale is absolutely not trivial.

Combine that with re-discovering all the basics of hand-offs, on-call, and other DevOps 101 stuff, it's going to a wild fscking ride 🏇

#CloudRepatriation #Cloud #DevOps #Infra

In my experience, the cloud works well for highly dynamic workloads or when trying to keep hardware out of the balance sheet. The difference between cloud and on-prem is a wash for everything else.
Today, @theregister has the story of @37signals putting an actual number on their savings.
#cloud #cloudrepatriation #digitaltransformation
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/37_signals_cloud_repatriation_savings/?ref=upstract.com

My feature, published today: enterprises are at a crossroads with #cloudcosts. Some choose #cloudrepatriation and others hedge their bets with #multicloud. Either way, they face fresh #distributedcomputing challenges. https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366537339/Cloud-repatriation-vs-multi-cloud-IT-seeks-cost-relief

Public cloud repatriation is a topic often overlooked, but can be necessary when economic realities shift. Many cite the high cost of cloud computing as the reason to move back to more traditional platforms. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3684369/2023-could-be-the-year-of-public-cloud-repatriation.html#tk.rss_all #PublicCloud #CloudComputing #CloudRepatriation