In order to save cost and minimize operational overhead, enterprises seek to outsource data management to cloud providers. Due to security concerns and performance problems, these projects often are not successful or don't perform as expected. The main cost factor in these situations are the operational costs for running and maintaining the data management infrastructure. In the Technology Partnership Lab, we research and evaluate solutions that keep the data and infrastructure on-premise and reduce costs by automating system management and operations, through the use of on-premise cloud-technology. This allows us to avoid security concerns arising from outsourced data, and still reduces cost for the customer. In this paper we present our approach and the underlying hardware and software architecture. We also present an industry example, based on an enterprise content management system, and discuss our experience in running this system as an on-premise cloud application.