What can we expect for cloud computing in 2021?
Cloud computing is the centerpiece of the global technical response to the Covid-19 crisis. In fact, the top public cloud providers have been outstanding commercial successes in this unusual year. Because companies everywhere were able to keep the lights on with staff working in their homes, all the major cloud providers have substantially increased their revenues and continued to deliver innovations at a breakneck pace. With the new coronavirus pandemic still hammering the global economy, here are my predictions for the 2021 enterprise cloud computing market. Cloud computing will be central to the new post-pandemic normal In the sad and tense year that is coming to an end, cloud services have been a boon to stop the economy and our lives from stopping. In 2021 and beyond, everyone will continue to rely entirely on clouds (as well as streaming, remote collaboration, smart sensors and other cloud-based digital technologies) to emerge from a pandemic that is still hitting us unapologetic...