On-Premises Comeback: Cloud Is Just One Side of the Story

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These days, it’s easy to think that on-premises deployments of infrastructure software no longer exist, besides desktop applications or perhaps residual file and print servers. After all, the current conversation is all about cloud native technologies and cloud infrastructure.

There are indeed several definitions of cloud computing, but in the general IT culture, cloud computing is mostly thought of as the public cloud infrastructure and major SaaS offerings.

There really are many benefits to on-premises deployments, and they can be roughly divided into three categories: Besides these categories, it is worth noting that at this point in time most on-prem systems tend to use at least some part of the technologies and tools stemming originally from cloud technologies.

Because of all this, it is easy to wonder where the cloud is.

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