Thinking About Cloud vs On-Prem vs Colocation Has Gotten Smarter Companies aren’t rushing to move all workloads to the cloud, but they aren’t sticking to old on-prem models either, survey shows. If just a few years ago it seemed that the writing was on the wall – that most workloads running in enterprise data centers would eventually be running in football field-sized cloud data centers, it no longer seems that way. It’s still true that the hyperscalers are picking up more and more enterprise business. It’s also still true that few companies whose core business isn’t running data centers want to run data centers. But for numerous reasons, including but not limited to the high cost of cloud services, compliance requirements, and performance needs, many aren’t ready to hand the entirety of their technical infrastructure operations over to AWS or Azure.