FINAL WORD digitalisation across the Middle East, often spurred by government-led cloud-first strategies, and many organisations have ended up with sprawling cloud footprints and ballooning costs.
In the AI era, the problem becomes even more acute. Training LLMs or running intensive inferencing workloads consumes massive compute power, which translates into significant cloud spend.
That’ s why many are turning to repatriation. It’ s not a rejection of the cloud but rather a recalibration.
Across the globe and increasingly in the Middle East, organisations are bringing workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises infrastructure or colocation facilities.
The repatriation reality check
Of course, moving workloads back from the cloud isn’ t as simple as flipping a switch. Repatriation usually ushers in a hybrid IT setup: some workloads stay in the public cloud, others move to private environments or edge facilities. This fragmentation introduces complexity and with it, new management challenges.
Think of your IT environment like a city. When everything’ s centralised, it’ s easier to maintain roads, manage utilities and respond to emergencies. But once outposts like suburbs, industrial zones and scattered neighbourhoods start to spring up, you need a new way to monitor and manage everything. That’ s where observability comes in.
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