For years, “cloud-first” was the mantra. But now, more companies are taking a second look—and pulling back. Declouding is real, and it’s growing. Teams are shifting from over-engineered cloud bills to bare metal infrastructure they can actually control.
It’s not about being anti-cloud—it’s about being cost-aware, latency-sensitive, and performance-driven.
Cloud promised scale and flexibility, but many teams now find themselves trapped in complex pricing models, unpredictable bills, and bloated dependencies.
A mid-sized SaaS company running AI workloads in the cloud saw monthly costs hit $72,000, mostly due to compute + data egress. By switching to dedicated bare metal nodes in a colocation facility, they cut costs by over 50%, while gaining direct access to GPU hardware and persistent storage.
Bare metal gives you what the cloud can't:
When performance matters—think low-latency trading, machine learning, video processing—bare metal wins.
A CDN provider running in the cloud saw inconsistent disk I/O during peak traffic. They migrated to colocated bare metal with NVMe storage and doubled throughput overnight.
When you run your own hardware:
For teams in finance, healthcare, and infrastructure, compliance rules now demand physical control—something cloud alone can’t deliver.
Modern colocation providers (like NCOLO) offer direct fiber, peering, and transit options without forcing you into a proprietary cloud stack.
Want to connect to AWS, Azure, and GCP from your own gear? No problem. Want to bypass them entirely? Also possible.
This isn't the death of the cloud. It's the rebirth of smart infrastructure planning.
Hybrid is the new normal:
NCOLO offers flexible bare metal and colocation options built for businesses that want performance, transparency, and real support—not just a dashboard.
If you’re tired of bloated bills and black-box compute, it might be time to take back control.
Start with one rack. You’ll never look back.
— Tyson Kerr
Lead Editor, NCOLO
📧 press@ncolo.net
