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Cloud Strategy Without the Vendor Bias
86% of CIOs are now planning to repatriate at least some workloads from public cloud.
Cloud strategy has become a genuine board-level cost and governance issue rather than a purely technical decision. Public cloud isn't the automatic right answer anymore—and neither is wholesale repatriation. MALA advisors have no cloud provider or reseller relationship to protect, so the recommendation you get is based on your workloads, your compliance obligations, and your budget, not on which platform pays the referral fee.
Timeline: 30-60 days for a full cloud strategy assessment.
Your Advisor: Led by former CIOs and enterprise architects who have run both cloud migrations and repatriation projects—not vendor-certified resellers.
What Your Advisor Delivers
- Workload-by-workload placement analysis: public cloud, private cloud, colocation, or on-premises
- Total cost of ownership modeling that accounts for egress, licensing, and hidden overage charges
- Vendor-neutral evaluation of hyperscaler and alternative infrastructure options
- Data residency and sovereignty review against applicable regulations
- A phased migration or repatriation roadmap with risk and cost sequencing
- FinOps governance recommendations to prevent future cloud spend creep
The Repatriation Trend Reshaping Cloud Strategy
Public cloud adoption is no longer a one-way door. 70% of organizations report they are already shifting some workloads back on-premises or to private infrastructure, and 72% of organizations spending over $2 million annually on cloud have repatriated at least one workload. The drivers are consistent: unpredictable egress and overage costs, and a growing list of data sovereignty requirements—GDPR, the EU AI Act, CPRA, and similar laws—that make where data physically sits a compliance question, not just a technical one.
MALA advisors evaluate your workloads against these realities rather than defaulting to whatever a single vendor's architecture recommends.
Cloud Spend Discipline, Not Just Migration
Cloud spend is now the top technology cost concern for most IT leaders: 84% cite it as their number one budget challenge, 59% exceeded their 2024 cloud budget, and an estimated 27% of cloud spend goes to waste industry-wide. Choosing the right architecture is only half the problem—the other half is ongoing FinOps discipline so costs don't quietly creep back up after a migration or repatriation project closes out. This connects directly to MALA's Technology Spend Optimization service for organizations that need both a cloud strategy and a broader spend governance program.
A Vendor-Neutral Assessment of Your Cloud Footprint
70% of organizations are already shifting workloads back from public cloud.
MALA's cloud advisors map every workload against cost, performance, compliance, and data residency requirements, then model total cost of ownership across public cloud, private cloud, colocation, and on-premises options side by side. Because MALA has no reseller agreement with any hyperscaler or infrastructure vendor, the resulting roadmap reflects what's right for your organization—not what maximizes a partner rebate.
Your Advisor: Led by former CIOs and enterprise architects with direct experience running both cloud migration and cloud repatriation programs—not vendor-certified resellers with a platform to sell.
Not Sure If You're Paying for the Right Cloud Strategy?
Get a vendor-neutral read on your cloud footprint from a senior MALA advisor—no obligation, and no cost to you regardless of outcome.