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Before the term took on sinister political tones, we were starting to hear a lot of talk about repatriation as the newest cloud trend. Jon Toigo addressed cloud repatriation in his last column for Storage magazine before his untimely passing earlier this year, and analyst firms and vendors threw the term around a lot in late 2018 and early 2019. They described a trend where a large number of organizations that put data into the cloud over the past decade were now pulling that data back on premises. It's likely the cloud repatriation trend was overblown, just as the breadth of companies moving into the cloud was once exaggerated. Although many organizations put data in public clouds over the years, few put the bulk of their data there. And while companies are pulling data back today, they're still leaving the right type of data in public clouds. The cloud trend we see now is companies taking a good look at what data they need in the cloud and on premises and then making any adjustments, which may or may not include cloud ...