By Lilia Guan
Publication Date: 2026-05-27 04:13:00
Qu stated there are two key trends shaping customer demands in the APJ region, with the first being workload migration to private cloud.
“Many customers who moved to public cloud environments a decade ago are now reevaluating their strategies,” he said. “The demand for tighter data sovereignty, stricter privacy compliance, and efficient management of static workloads is compelling organisations to repatriate workloads to private clouds.”
However, these businesses are still seeking to preserve the agility and experience of the public cloud.
“The second trend is AI adoption. APJ is at the forefront of AI adoption, with countries like China, India, Japan, and Singapore taking the lead. Customers are increasingly adopting small language models rather than large language models and training them in private data centres due to data sovereignty concerns.
“This shift is driving demand for modern private cloud infrastructures that can support Kubernetes workloads,…
