Is On-Prem Making A Comeback?
While cloud migration previously offered unmatched speed and cost efficiency, decision-makers now perceive localized systems as offering superior long-term security. In this guest commentary, strategic adviser Itay Sagie shares three trends he believes are pushing on-prem back into the limelight. Itay Sagie A PBX vendor recently told me something I did not expect to hear: customers are asking for on-premise systems again.
Key Takeaways
- Looking broader into the entire market, I can see how this makes a lot of sense.
Companies are becoming increasingly uneasy about where critical infrastructure and sensitive data live.
- But we are witnessing an interesting shift where progress is happening so fast, security cannot keep up, thus creating an uneasy feeling causing decision-makers to revert back to older, and perhaps safer perceived strategies.
Here are three trends that I believe are pushing on-prem back into the limelight.
- For sensitive systems such as communications, payments, identity and customer data, control becomes more valuable.
- It is also the data companies are most careful with.
For these use cases, on-prem or private AI infrastructure becomes more attractive.
- The concern is that the minute quantum becomes commercial, all encrypted data sitting in the cloud will be transparent.
Looking broader into the entire market, I can see how this makes a lot of sense. Companies are becoming increasingly uneasy about where critical infrastructure and sensitive data live. Voice cloning is becoming more convincing.
Vibe coding is allowing less experienced developers to build faster, but not always more securely. Quantum computing is still over the horizon, but serious companies are already thinking about what it may mean for encryption and long-term data protection. For the past decade, cloud migration was treated as the obvious strategy.
It gave companies speed, scale and lower upfront costs. Startups could launch without buying servers. Enterprises could modernize without rebuilding their own infrastructure.
For more details please read the original article at Crunchbase News.
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