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Cloud Repatriation and Hybrid Realities
Sep 9, 2025
Cloud adoption grows more complex as hybrid use rises, repatriation spreads, and ERP migrations stall under cost and complexity.
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Cloud adoption is increasingly complex, with hybrid models now the norm and workload repatriation on the rise, especially in web hosting, databases and disaster recovery. Strategy maturity and multi-cloud unification remain low, while ERP migration is stalled by cost, complexity and weak IT–finance collaboration.
Core Insights:
- Hybrid models dominate as cloud adoption shifts away from linear migration, with workload repatriation accelerating across key areas like web hosting, databases and disaster recovery.
- Only a small minority (9%) of organisations have mature, adaptive cloud strategies, while nearly half lack meaningful multi-cloud unification.
- ERP migration remains one of the toughest challenges, hindered by unclear costs, additional engineering requirements and limited IT–finance collaboration.