India, March 16 -- Pledging resilience, agility, and economic nirvana, the public cloud hyperscalers promised to make it incredibly easy to move applications and data into their environments. However, organisations are finding it incredibly difficult and costly to move those apps in or out when those promises weren't delivered.

Indian companies that jumped head-first into public cloud have found the costs kept piling up and their concerns for data protection and sovereignty are greater than ever. These challenges are leading some enterprises to pull back workloads that were rushed to the cloud prematurely. But unless the on-prem infrastructure these workloads are being repatriated to is modernised, application performance (along with bus...