24 Oct 2024 - Where next for private-cloud networks? (ITpro.com)
- Oct 23, 2024
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Why private cloud will remain a strong option for the foreseeable future – and could even help firms save costs and prepare for the future
By Fleur Doidge
Published October 24, 2024In Features
However you define "private cloud" or segment the analysis, it's on the up. Although organizations are moving away from owning their own on premises infrastructure in their own data centers, they’re not guaranteed to choose the public cloud as they might have in the early cloud boom years.
So says Terry Storrar, managing director at Leaseweb, who tells ITPro that the cloud market continues to diversify as firms seek more control over their data and oversight of their cloud costs.
Storrar cites cloud sovereignty as a chief concern driving this investment. Customers worry about data compliance burdens in the wake of regulatory upheaval such as Brexit and businesses increasingly come under national or public-sector pressure to track where their data is at all times.
"You're taking what you had on-prem, moving it, accessing it via longer pieces of string," he says....
