IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. And he has seen some respond by moving workloads from the cloud back to on-premises data centers, a move they feel gives them better control over costs and privacy standards. He worked with one insurance company that in 2023 made such a move, driven specifically by the desire to have a firm hold on its regulated data, for example. Chege, now CEO and principal consultant of Digital Transf…