Organizations have shown a growing reliance on dedicated servers, with a significant 86% using them according to new research. Key sectors driving this trend include government, IT, and finance. Small businesses also embrace dedicated servers, with 68% of micro companies reporting usage. Respondents indicate a shift back to these servers, with 42% migrating workloads from public cloud within a year. Notably, over one-third increased spending in 2024, reflecting confidence in dedicated environments for compliance-sensitive tasks, databases, web hosting, and AI processes.
This upward trend in 2024 spending reflects a broader shift back to dedicated environments, with 42% of IT professionals saying they migrated workloads away from the public cloud in the past 12 months.
People outside of tech often think servers are outdated or only for legacy systems. But dedicated infrastructure still plays a critical role in compliance-heavy industries, and sometimes outperforms cloud for specific workloads.
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