India, Aug. 11 -- The cloud story is evolving fast and is bringing in a lot of reimagination across the world. Yet again, it brings that age-old perennial debate to the frontlines of C-suite discussions: aligning IT with business.

From the early exuberance around public cloud migrations to today's recalibrated approaches, enterprises are waking up to a new reality: the need for balancing the workloads, cost and data control, and sovereignty. As enterprises recalibrate their cloud strategies in response to economic and business pressures, AI demands, and evolving security needs, VMware is at the forefront of a decisive industry shift-what it calls the "Cloud Reset."

According to VMware's Private Cloud Outlook 2025 survey, 53% of global I...