At Attimis Corporation, we see exactly the trend Kelley Mak described with our customers, primarily fueled by exploding AI data needs. Many are actively reassessing their cloud strategies, especially as costs, governance, and performance issues emerge. Tech companies leading the shift back on-prem have started influencing how large enterprises approach their infrastructure decisions. Attimis CORE? is among the first tools designed to address this shift, driven by growing AI data needs. It provides enterprises with greater control and management over cloud, on-prem, and hybrid setups. Tools like CORE empower companies to reshape their infrastructure strategies and regain control over their workloads.
Enterprises are moving back on prem. Tech companies (Dropbox, Pinterest, Snap, and others) have been public on this shift for some time and I expect that we'll start to see more Fortune 500s and large enterprises speaking up about repatriating cloud workloads. GEICO is a prime example where their VP of Platform and Infrastructure Engineering recently shared that “Ten years into that journey, GEICO still hadn’t migrated everything to the cloud, their bills went up 2.5x, and their reliability challenges went up quite a lot too.” This phenomenon validated from conversations lately with infra leaders. Cost concerns, performance and latency, and data privacy and security are top of mind right now. Eng leaders have found that over time they lost track on governance and cost control in cloud migrations and that some workloads are better managed by them versus the public cloud. If workloads are static, they don't belong in the cloud and can be done cheaper on prem. Anything that benefits from elasticity and global reach can stay in the cloud. Here's what's on my mind going forward: - Will old skills become new again? Will we see a renaissance in sysadmins and networking engineering? - Will new tools emerge to make on prem easier? There is already revived interest in hardware monitoring and datacenter infrastructure management. - Will BYOC be more common? We are seeing from our own portfolio that self-hosting is a go to option for enterprises and BYOC could be the best of both worlds.