Cloud adoption has become essential for companies globally. 98% of organisations are currently in the process of migrating to the Cloud, even though they still retain 75% of their workloads on-premises, as reflected in NetApp's Data Complexity Report 2023.

Companies are realising that a hybrid combination of Cloud and On-premise could be a more convenient strategy. The clear benefits of a hybrid environment lie in the ability to take the best that each environment, cloud or on-premise, has to offer. For many, going to the Cloud meant being able to dispense with the capital expense of data centres, closing and selling off expensive legacy infrastructures. But recent moves suggest that organisations may be retreating from the Cloud and ‘repatriating’ data, workloads and applications to On-premise or Colocation facilities.

What types of workloads are best suited to stay in the Cloud and which are best to stay on-premise? What are the benefits and challenges of adopting a hybrid strategy, combining Cloud and On-premise compared to a Cloud-only approach? And what do companies need to know for a repatriation project?