Broadcom launches VCF 9.0 to address growing cloud balance needs
Businesses are increasingly seeking a “reset” of their cloud strategies and implementations are a range of concerns and issues cause firms of all sizes to think twice, new research has claimed.
Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report found private clouds are becoming an increasingly common presence for many businesses – with the vast majority (93%) saying they deliberately balance a mix of private and public clouds.
The research, which surveyed 1,800 senior IT decision-makers across the globe, found more than half (53%) saying private cloud would be their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, while nearly three-quarters (73%) say they are considering workload repatriation from public to private cloud, with one-third having already done so.Cloud reset
The research found a variety of factors influencing the shift towards public cloud, with security, cost and compliance standing out.
Overall, 92% of respondents said they trusted private cloud for security and compliance needs, 90% valued its financial visibility and predictability, and 60% said they preferred private cloud for AI model training, tuning and inference.
However, some major challenges often remain for firms looking to carry out this ‘cloud reset’, as a third (33%) named siloed IT teams as a challenge to private cloud adoption, and a similar proportion (30%) citing a lack of proper in-house skills or expertise as a major barrier, leaving 80% to depend on professional services for cloud-related needs.
