Asia/Pacific Refocuses on Hybrid Architectures

This Market Perspective looks into the main drivers of hybrid cloud across the Asia/Pacific markets, and provides technology vendors with information on how best to position themselves favorably with technology buyers looking to either repatriate workloads from the public cloud or deploy new workloads into their existing datacenter.Hybrid cloud is seeing a resurgence of interest across the Asia/Pacific markets in 2025 and beyond. Around a third of organizations in the region have stated a desire to repatriate a range of workloads, and there are new investments in tools, infrastructure, and data management that will further drive demand for on-premises equipment."Critical to this refocus around on-premises will be the need to ensure that applications leverage a cloud-native architecture," says Simon Piff, vice president, Infrastructure Research at IDC. "Early movement to the cloud saw many simply attempt a lift and shift, which ultimately proved a less successful strategy. We need to ensure we learn from the past and not repeat this as we either repatriate or deploy net new applications on premises."