In his key takeaways from Cloud Field Day, Alastair Cooke pointed to cyber resilience and data sovereignty as major forces shaping cloud modernization. Many organizations are keeping compliance-heavy and legacy applications on-premises, while adopting cloud as an operational model rather than a fixed location. Hybrid and private cloud architectures are now the norm for enterprise workloads, with data mobility becoming increasingly important. Hyperscalers are differentiating themselves through deeper integration with on-premises environments. At the same time, AI—especially generative AI—is transforming storage and infrastructure strategies, as high-performance GPUs require rapid access to large volumes of data. As a result, businesses are testing in the public cloud but shifting inference closer to their data sources.