8OCTOBER 2025OPINIONIN MYBy Cléber Alexandre Agazzi, Head of Infrastructure & IT Operations, SicrediCléber Alexandre Agazzi is a Head of Infrastructure & IT Operations, at Sicredi. With a career spanning over 15 years in IT leadership, he specializes in orchestrating transformative initiatives that drive organizational growth and innovation. As the Head of Infrastructure & IT Operations at Sicredi, Agazzi is dedicated to crafting executive-level strategies, optimizing digital infrastructures and fostering a culture of innovation through strong leadership and strategic vision. Managing infrastructure as a product (platform engineering), he focus on providing agile and scalable solutions to support the evolving needs of the business, ensuring seamless integration between technology and operations to drive efficiency and resilience while enabling sustainable growth.The Shift from Cloud Optimism to Repatriation Cloud migration has transformed the way companies manage their operations, promising greater agility, scalability and cost reduction. However, as these strategies mature, many CIOs are questioning whether the cloud is truly the ultimate solution for all workloads. While some applications thrive in this environment, others have shown significant challenges, leading many organizations to rethink their strategies.Historically, data centers were considered reactive, slow and inefficient. The rise of cloud services changed this reality, enabling companies to meet their business demands with greater IN TIMES OF CLOUD, WHY USE A DATA CENTER?agility. Consequently, most rushed in this direction are attracted by promises of ease, speed and efficiency.However, over time, it became clear that not every workload is efficient in the cloud. "Repatriation" movements emerged, as demonstrated by the 2024 Barclays CIO survey, published by Michael Dell on his LinkedIn profile, where 83 percent of companies plan to move workloads back to their private clouds. But why is this happening?The transition to the cloud is not always optimized. The "lift and shift" approach, inaccurate cost control, inadequate sizing choices and the unpredictability of data growth can create significant issues, particularly in terms of cost. Public cases support these statements, such as Dropbox in 2016, which realized it would be more economical, in the long run, to build and operate its own data centers, or Bank of America, which decided to keep Cléber Alexandre Agazzi
< Page 7 | Page 9 >