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Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?


Outsourcing computing to the cloud is a huge business, but some firms have said it's not for them.

Digital workspace company Citrix found that 94% of large US organisations it surveyed had worked on repatriating data or workloads from the cloud in the last three years. “A key factor in our decision was that we have highly proprietary R&D data and code that must remain strictly secure,” says Markus Schaal, managing director at the German firm. Some his biggest clients for repatriation are online software providers, where each additional customer puts more load on the server, increasing cloud costs.

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