-- Elvitix, a consultancy specialising in data infrastructure and AI adoption, has published new guidance for enterprise leaders who are re-evaluating their data strategies in 2025. The findings reveal a growing trend away from “all-in-cloud” approaches and toward hybrid architectures that strike a balance between cost, performance, and compliance.
“Cloud-only migration once felt like a default path,” said Nicholas Perkins, CEO of Elvitix. “But as workloads grow more complex and regulations tighten, businesses see the value of aligning each workload with the environment that best fits its needs. Hybrid isn’t a compromise; it’s a strategic choice that reduces overspend and improves resilience.”
Cloud vs. Hybrid vs. On-Prem: A Strategic Shift
According to the Elvitix analysis, many CIOs who pushed for full cloud adoption during the last decade are now moving select workloads back on-premises or into dedicated regional data centres. This reversal reflects rising operational costs in the public cloud, stricter compliance requirements, and the latency demands of critical applications.
Elvitix’s research shows that businesses that assess infrastructure on a workload-by-workload basis often achieve double-digit cost savings without sacrificing innovation or governance.
Key Drivers of Infrastructure Decisions
The report highlights several recurring factors that influence where workloads should reside:
- Workload fit: Not all applications perform optimally in the same environment; treating them uniformly can lead to inefficiency.
- Latency requirements: Time-critical operations, such as high-frequency trading or connected manufacturing, often require staying near the point of action.
- Governance and compliance: Local and cross-border regulations dictate where sensitive data can be stored and processed.
- Total cost of ownership: Long-running workloads with heavy data movement can be more expensive in the cloud than on-prem.
- Control and risk: Some enterprises keep strategic data in-house to reduce dependency on vendors and mitigate security risks.
Hybrid Adoption Rising
Hybrid architecture is increasingly seen as a design pattern rather than a compromise. By combining public-cloud elasticity for variable or seasonal workloads with on-prem or dedicated environments for latency-sensitive or highly regulated data, organisations can better balance cost, compliance, and performance.
“Companies that adopt hybrids early often discover added freedom,” noted Perkins. “They are less locked into a single vendor and can optimise each layer of their infrastructure.”
Lessons from Real-World Deployments
The guidance from Elvitix is supported by real-world examples:
- A global retailer moved its real-time inventory engine back on-prem after unpredictable cloud egress fees eroded margins.
- A European fintech kept fraud-detection models in the cloud for agility but shifted customer-identity data to a regulated local facility for compliance.
- A biotech company trains heavy ML models in the cloud for scale but runs inference at the edge to cut latency and meet local privacy standards.
These choices were driven by economics, regulation, and performance, not by ideology or vendor loyalty.
A Practical Playbook for 2025 and Beyond
Elvitix advises enterprises to follow a three-step approach:
- Map workloads by sensitivity, latency, and long-term cost profile.
- Define governance and compliance boundaries before committing to a platform.
- Revisit decisions regularly, as regulations and technology continue to evolve.
“Architecture is no longer a one-time migration project,” Perkins added. “It’s a continuous optimization effort that frees budgets and accelerates innovation.”
About Elvitix
Founded in 2019, Elvitix is a London-based consultancy that helps enterprises optimise data and AI infrastructures by designing fit-for-purpose architectures with robust governance and cost-efficient operations. The firm partners with leaders in finance, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing worldwide.
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