As businesses this time last year wrapped up their planning for the year ahead, few could have predicted the dramatic changes that awaited them. By Spring, the coronavirus pandemic had disrupted all manner of operations globally, forcing businesses to pivot in real-time to accommodate remote working for the vast majority if not all of their workforce. This unprecedented change accompanied by huge levels of uncertainty required heavy restructuring of IT infrastructure.

Often, we saw IT operations across the globe managing this monumental lift through moving additional workloads to the cloud and adopting a hybrid cloud environment model. In many cases, these digital transformations were already occurring and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated plans which were already in place. Plans were set in motion by teams who increasingly see the value of hybrid cloud environments and the benefits that can be found.

One thing 2020 has taught us is to expect the unexpected and whilst we do not know what 2021 has in store, several trends have emerged that enable us to make some predictions for what this year might hold for the world of hybrid cloud.

New technology was required in more ways than ever last year, with a number of changes related to growing hybrid cloud use emerging including:

In 2021, we predict businesses will address the above changes and drive them further in ways that will apply new resources and strategies to drive business outcomes as the world around us advances in cloud and AI research. Our predictions are as follows:

Companies are already in the process of decentralising IT operations to hybrid cloud environments and we predict that in the year ahead, this will continue at rapid speed with even businesses in the most regulated industries partaking. This is due to the availability of security measures that will improve isolation, ensure system and data integrity and implement Zero Trust strategies whilst remaining compliant with data privacy regulations worldwide (which become increasingly more tough as security threats evolve). These security technologies such as Confidential Computing, quantum-safe, and fully homomorphic encryption will become more mainstream than they have ever been before.

We have already seen the power of AI in technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), graph-based techniques and explainable AI in tools such as voice recognition and language translation apps. In 2021, we predict that the same AI will be applied to machines code which will in turn significantly accelerate the moving of applications to the cloud and aid their management. This AI will teach machines to reason, offering explanations for an applications behaviour and its structure to recommend and automate the generation of identified microservice candidates.

Crunching a large dataset from your laptop may require using 100,000 containers and the knowledge of how to re-code applications for the hybrid cloud. Developers and data scientists without years of experience with containerisation, parallelisation and container orchestration tools currently find it very hard to programme in hybrid cloud environments.

Throughout 2021, open-source tools will help integrate many clouds and on-premise systems into a single, seamless hybrid platform by shortening the learning curve for programmers and non-programmers for that matter. This application deployment model will be easier for those without lots of hybrid cloud expertise to programme and use freeing up programmers with more experience to work on higher-value projects.

This year, we expect to see huge breakthroughs in AI hardware used to build and deploy AI models. Paired with 5G advances, sustainable AI computing at the edge could remove even more borders between cloud and edge, offering a key technological upgrade for hybrid cloud infrastructures, and a major advancement for privacy and security of AI models by keeping more data at the edge. 5G cellular architecture is also expected to be a catalyst trigger wide-spread adoption of edge computing.

Much of the change we expect to see in 2021 will be focused on the improvements in AIs power and efficiency, so it can help businesses meet a number of challenges to securely deploy and manage hybrid cloud environments for a larger number of users to meet the challenges of last year.

Whilst we dont know exactly how 2021 will play out, we expect hybrid cloud technologies to continue to play a large role in breaking down barriers for the enterprise.

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WASHINGTON The Department of Defense will reassess its cloud-computing options if a federal court does not dismiss allegations of improper influence in the contract process for the project worth billions, a new DoD memo said.

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, awarded to Microsoft in October 2019, would provide a department-wide platform needed to develop artificial intelligence and computing capabilities for war fighters at the tactical edge. But if the U.S Court of Federal Claims clears the way for Amazon Web Services interference allegations against former President Donald Trump over the JEDI project, the Pentagon warned that the prospect of such a lengthy litigation process might bring the future of the JEDI cloud procurement into question, according to the memo from the DoD CIO office to Congress.

Under this scenario, the DoD CIO would reassess the strategy going forward, the memo read.

AWS has stated that it wants to collect sworn statements from Trump and other current and past senior officials, including former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Evidence AWS cites against Trump includes public and private statements about his dislike for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

These motions will be complex and elongate the timeline significantly, the memo said.

Building the JEDI cloud infrastructure has been delayed since the Pentagon awarded the contract, valued up to $10 billion over a decade,. Shortly after the award, AWS filed a lawsuit to block the department from working to build the enterprise cloud environment, alleging political interference and technical evaluation errors by the department during the selection process.

Regardless of the JEDI cloud litigation outcome, the department continues to have an urgent, unmet requirement, the DoD memo said. Specifically, the departments need for an enterprise-wide, commercial cloud services for all three classification levels, extending from the homefront to the tactical edge, at scale. We remain fully committed to meeting this requirement we hope through JEDI but this requirement transcends any one procurement, and we will be prepared to ensure it is met one way or another.

The allegations of interference by Trump add uncertainty to the JEDI cloud project under President Joe Bidens Department of Defense. Meanwhile, some industry experts have challenged the construct of the JEDI cloud, arguing that the contract shouldnt be a single award and instead should involve several vendors.

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If the court dismisses the improper influence allegations, then the department believes that the litigation of the remaining three counts would likely take four to five months, the memo stated.

Work on JEDI cloud would continue to be paused until the litigation process is complete, and DISA/CCPO [Defense Information Systems Agency/Cloud Computing Program Office] remains ready to resume management of the JEDI cloud work if/when the entire set of litigation is resolved in the governments favor.

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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anexinet Corporation, a leading provider of digital business transformation solutions, today announced its Disaster Recovery Kickstart program has received a 2020 Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award from TMCs Cloud Computing Magazine. Anexinets program was honored for its 6-step process to ensure the protection of business-critical applications and data following a disaster.

The Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award recognizes technologies and vendors that provide cloud solutions to minimize lost business opportunities by empowering businesses large and small to remain active and productive under even the most challenging conditions.

Recognizing excellence in the advancement of cloud-computing technologies, Cloud Computing magazine is proud to announce the Disaster Recovery Kickstart program as a recipient of the Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award, said TMC CEO, Rich Tehrani. Anexinet is being honored for their achievement in bringing innovation to the market while leveraging the latest technology trends.

Anexinets new Disaster Recovery Kickstart addresses preparedness with a 6-step process that includes:

Many companies are under the false impression that their disaster recovery plans are up-to-date and sufficient to recover lost data quickly, said Tim Malfara, VP, Hybrid IT and Cloud Services, Anexinet. In reality, they have outdated test plans and untrained staff members that make Recovery Time and Point Objectives (RTO & RPO) a big challenge. Were proud Cloud Computing Magazine has recognized Anexinets unique program that takes the guesswork out of disaster recovery and provides organizations with a pragmatic roadmap to protect digital assets.

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FILE PHOTO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman announces a zero-carbon city called "The Line" to be built at NEOM in northwestern Saudi Arabia, January 10, 2021. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabias futuristic city project NEOM is in talks with companies to pick a lead partner for its first cloud computing deal that will lay the foundation for hi-tech services in its flagship $500 billion business zone, a senior executive said.

The talks with local and international tech firms come after a subsidiary of oil giant Saudi Aramco recently partnered with Google to bring its cloud services to the kingdom, and Saudi Telecom Co. struck a similar deal with Alibaba Cloud.

From a compute perspective, were seeing lots of opportunities for partnerships with large, hyper-scale providers, Joseph Bradley, head of technology and digital at NEOM, told Reuters.

Were in final stages of negotiations with several.

Last year NEOM, which is backed by the $400 billion Saudi sovereign fund PIF, announced a deal with Saudi firm stc group to establish a 5G network for its planned cognitive cities.

NEOMs flagship project is a carbon-free zone called The Line. Its construction will begin this year and the first phase will be completed by 2025, Bradley, a former CISCO Systems executive, said.

The plan, unveiled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Jan. 10, is the first major construction project aimed at diversifying the economy of the worlds largest oil exporter.

NEOM also plans to build a city-wide operating system based on artificial intelligence in the business zone to better utilise data for its inhabitants.

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The WisdomTree Cloud Computing ETF (WCLD) was the star of cloud computing exchange traded funds last year. It has more to give in 2021.

The WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index, an equally weighted index designed to measure the performance of emerging public companies focused on delivering cloud-based software to customers.

Public cloud revenue is one of the many catalysts that can spark more upside for WCLD this year.

According to data presented by Finaria, public cloud revenues jumped by 25% year-over-year amid the COVID-19 crisis and hit $271.9bn in 2020. The increasing trend is set to continue this year, with revenues growing by another 25% YoY to $338b, notes Finaria.

The cloud computing industry refers to companies that (i) license and deliver software over the internet on a subscription basis (SaaS), (ii) provide a platform for creating software applications which are delivered over the internet (PaaS), (iii) provide virtualized computing infrastructure over the internet (IaaS), (iv) own and manage facilities customers use to store data and servers, including data center Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and/or (v) manufacture or distribute infrastructure and/or hardware components used in cloud and edge computing activities.

As more business models look to technology amid social distancing, cloud computing will only grow to greater heights. Prior to the pandemic, businesses were already transitioning to the cloud to streamline their processes.

Today, billions of people use cloud storage to manage and store private data. However, its ability to provide access to computing power that would otherwise be extremely expensive has seen cloud computing technology spread widely in the business sector, also, notes Finaria. Examples of cloud computing use can be found practically everywhere, from messaging apps, social networking, and streaming services to business processes, office tools, lending platforms, or chatbots.

Cloud computing has been a boon for companies that have been able to capitalize on the increased work-from-home labor force.

The COVID-19 and the shift to remote work and video conferencing accelerated moves to the cloud in 2020, with annual revenues rising by more than $55bn. Statista data indicate the global public cloud market is expected to hit a $500 billion benchmark in the next two years and continue rising to $679.5bn value by 2025, concludes Finaria.

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Stem cell mobilization, using motixafortide, is seen as the companys most efficient path to registering the new drug for regulatory approval. Based on the potential of motixafortide and the $2.40 share price, some analysts think that now is the time to pull the trigger. Covering BLRX for Oppenheimer, 5-star analyst Mark Breidenbach noted, Our thesis remains centered on motixafortide in stem cell mobilization, and we see a disconnect between the companys market capitalization and motixafortides market opportunity as a stem cell mobilizer. Key GENESIS secondary endpoints are expected by mid-2021, and we see little risk heading into these data The analyst added, We believe results from the Phase 3 GENESIS trial could spur the majority of transplant physicians to choose BL-8040 over Mozobil to combine with G-CSF if the drug is approved. Upside to our thesis includes BL-8040 for use in other auto-HSCTs, allo-HSCTs, AML, and solid tumors. The company boasts a catalyst-rich, deep oncology pipeline that has attracted collaborations with Novartis, Merck, and Genentech. Given all of the above, Breidenbach rates BLRX as a Buy, and his $11 price target suggests a whopping 358% upside for the year ahead. (To watch Breidenbachs track record, click here) The rest of the Street appears to echo Breidenbachs bullish sentiment. As it has racked up 3 Buys and no Holds or Sells, the consensus is unanimous: BLRX is a Strong Buy. Adding to the good news, the upside potential lands at ~428% based on the $12.67 average price target. (See BLRX stock analysis on TipRanks) Kindred Biosciences (KIN) While most biotech companies focus on human medications, we are not the only market. Kindred biosciences is biopharmaceutical company in the veterinary market, developing biologic medications to improve the lives of our pets and working animals. The company describes its mission as [bringing] to pets the same kinds of safe and effective medicines that human family members enjoy. Parvovirus (CPV) is a highly infectious, and highly lethal, viral disease affecting dogs. While vaccines are available, untreated cases can see upwards of 91% mortality. Kindreds main pipeline drug, KIND-030 is under development as a treatment for this disease. Currently, the drug candidate is following two paths in the development process one for treatment of established infections, and one as a prophylactic preventative treatment for CPV. The prophylactic study has shown positive results, with treated dogs all avoiding infection, while all dogs in the placebo group developed parvovirus disease. KIND-030 also showed a mortality benefit when given as a treatment for infection. The drug candidate is in the pivotal study stage of development, the last before potential approval. Last month, Kindred announced that it had entered an agreement with Elanco Animal Health a major manufacturer of veterinary medicines for production of KIND-030. Cantor analyst Brandon Folkes sees plenty of potential in Kindred, especially in the companys agreement with Elanco. A partnership with a leading animal health company, in this case Elanco, is exactly what the company needed, in our view. In our view, this validates KIN's new strategic approach, as a developer of drugs while seeking larger commercial partners. We believe that today's deal should reinforce to investors that there remains meaningful value in Kindred's pipeline, which could be realized over the next 12 to 18 months, Folkes opined. Kindred is also conducting studies of Tirnovetmab, or KIND-016, an antibody targeting IL31, in the treatment of atopic dermatitis in dogs. The pivotal efficacy study of this drug started in the last quarter of 2020. There is a potentially huge market for a successful dermatitis treatment for canines; in the last six years, there has been a 47% increase in vet visits for dogs with severe itchy skin, and the market is estimated at $900 million or more. While 2020 has been a tough year for KIN stock, the company continues to have multiple shots on goal from its diversified pipeline that could reward investors from the current levels. With multiple readouts in 2021, and the renewed sole focus on development of its pipeline we expect 2021 could be a banner year for KIN should it be able to deliver on the promise of its pipeline, and in particular the atopic dermatitis portfolio, the analyst summed up. To this end, Folkes gives KIN an $11 price target, implying a 139% upside potential for 2021, and an Overweight (i.e. Buy) rating. (To watch Folkes track record, click here) Kindred is another company with a unanimous Strong Buy analyst consensus, this one based on 5 recent Buy reviews. 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Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) is undoubtedly one of the biggest and best mega-cap stocks on Wall Street.

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Google stock is coming off another solid year. And increasingly, Googles cloud services are a growing part of the companys success.

While it didnt show some of the amazing returns enjoyed by some of the biggest tech stocks in the world, Google stock still managed to pull a 27% return in 2020. That easily topped the greater Nasdaq composite, which gained roughly 15%.

Now as Alphabet barrels toward its fourth quarter and full-year earnings report (expected February 2), the big question is what investors can expect from Alphabet. The company has its hands in everything from AI to cloud storage, internet services, advertising, entertainment and autonomous vehicles.

Such reach gives Alphabet huge advantages to pull in profits from a variety of sources, making the company relatively impervious to long-term downtrends.

But Alphabet is also in keen competition with other mega-cap tech companies that are vying for the same slices of pie that are fueling Google stock.

Heres what you should be looking for as Alphabet prepares its earnings report.

The big question for Alphabet is whether it will be able to replicate the success it showed for Q3. In the third quarter, Alphabet posted revenue of $46.2 billion and earnings per share of $16.40.

Analysts had expected revenue of $42.9 and EPS of $11.21, so the earnings beat was a big one.

The beat was especially significant as the company saw its first-ever decline in revenue in the second quarter, thanks to a fall-off in advertising revenue during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Those numbers turned around in Q3, with advertising revenue of $37.1 billion compared to $33.8 billion in the third quarter of 2019. Alphabet will need to continue that positive trend in Q4.

While advertising is a core business for Alphabet, theres yet another reason why I think Google stock is one worth watching as we head into the Q4 earnings report.

Undoubtedly, there are some big players in the cloud computing and storage game. Competition is fierce and the market is growing.

So its notable that that Alphabet isnt just sitting on its laurels when it comes to building out the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Three years ago, Cockroach Labs began issuing annual comparative cloud reports, giving consumers and businesses an indication of which company was doing the best in cloud services and computing. And in that early study, Google ranked far behind competitors such as Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure.

Not any longer.

In the Cockroach Labs 2021 report released this month, Google is ranked as providing the best overall performance.

The margins are tight. For instance, Google gets top scores for running online transactional processing workloads. Amazon is considered to be the best value for the money.

Declaring a winner was much harder to declare in years past, the authors say in the study.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google are three mega-heavyweights. Its like a prize fight with Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and George Foreman all in their primes.

Alphabet will have to work hard to continue to improve its cloud services, but its on the right track. And more importantly for Google stock, the companys cloud services are a reliable money-maker. In the third quarter, Google stock recorded $3.44 billion in revenue from the companys cloud services, versus $3.32 billion that analysts had expected.

Just this month, Alphabet announced some new AI tools that will help retailers using Googles cloud services to deliver a better user experience to their customers. The tools will allow retailers to suggest products based on their browsing history and will be able to adapt in real time to user behavior.

Nobody collects browsing data like Alphabet. The companys Google Chrome web browser is by far the dominant browser in the United States, with more than a 50% market share.

Tools such as these are doubly important for retailers who are doing more business online, thanks to changes in customer behavior brought on by Covid-19. They will help Alphabet compete with Microsoft and Amazon for cloud dominance.

Google stock had a good though not great 2020. But theres good reason for optimism, particularly with the companys emphasis on cloud computing and services.

Forrester Research estimates that the public cloud computing infrastructure market will grow by 35% to $120 billion. Now that Alphabet has made up the ground with Amazon and Microsoft, its going to be important for Google stock that the company keep investing in its cloud products.

On the date of publication, Louis Navellier had a long position in GOOGL, AMZN and MSFT. Louis Navellier did not have (either directly or indirectly) any other positions in the securities mentioned in this article.

The InvestorPlace Research Staff member primarily responsible for this article had a long position in AMZN. The staff member did not hold (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.

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In case you need proof of where the IT jobs of the future are headed, know this: More than 90 percent of American businesseskeep their essential data in the cloud. But while cloud computing offers a lot of versatility and storage, it also requires knowledgeable people to set up and maintain itand there's room for more of them every day.

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The Covid-19 pandemic and the shift to remote working it has prompted means that 2020 was in many ways the year of the cloud.

The adoption of cloud-based systems and public clouds has soared over the past 12 months as businesses look to digitise quickly and support remote workers. And this trend looks like its here to stay.

According to research by Sumo Logic, in 2020 multi-cloud adoption grew by 70% year-over-year.

Verdict spoke to Ian Massingham, global director of startup solutions architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS) to find out how startups can utilise the benefits of the cloud to adapt to the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Ian Massingham: The Covid-19 pandemic has ultimately changed the way that we live and work, and as a result, all organisations have had to adapt to the challenges it has raised. One of the main characteristics that helps startups to succeed is adaptability. This is such a fundamental necessity for startup success that it resulted in the term pivot being coined, which means a rapid, and sometimes unexpected change of direction or business model that helps a startup flourish.

We have seen some fantastic examples from our customers of companies that successfully pivoted their business as a result of the pandemic. For example, Phorest, a company that specialises in computer software for hairdressers, spas, and beauty salon owners, pivoted its business model and quickly built a voucher platform and e-commerce offering to help support salon owners through the pandemic, enabling them to generate income while non-essential services were closed. The cloud-based management system was used this year by over 90,000 salon and spa professionals globally. Another example is Manna Aero, the worlds first aviation-grade, B2B autonomous drone delivery as-a-service company. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Manna pivoted its business from commercial food delivery and partnered with the Irish governments Health Service Executive to deliver prescription medicine and critical supplies to the local community, and in particular elderly and vulnerable people, in the town of Moneygall, in southwest Ireland.

The pandemic has also created challenges in some of the sectors where our customers are building new businesses travel would be an obvious example but at the same time, it has created growth opportunities for others, such as digital fitness apps or remote collaboration tools. One such company is AWS customer Peleton, a New York-based company specialising in tech-enabled exercise equipment, that has registered a 66% surge in sales this year.

The pandemic has underlined how important cloud computing technologies are for developing a technical infrastructure and a culture that can adapt to and thrive in different circumstances. This year, weve seen enterprise organisations rapidly develop concrete plans for cloud adoption, after years of talking about moving to the cloud without necessarily taking the steps to make that shift.

This change in attitude reflects the central role that cloud plays in enabling businesses to rapidly and effectively transform how they operate and bring new services and solutions to the table and to therefore adapt to changing circumstances. Often, these adaptations reinvent the organisation, transforming how it works and what it means to its customers look, for example, at Netflixs fateful shift from mail-order DVD delivery to streaming.

When we look at the businesses that endure and sustain their success over many years, the consistent factor that unites them is this capacity to reinvent themselves where necessary. Moreover, this is not just-in-time reinvention, which happens at the last minute and is prompted by urgent external factors. It is instead continuous reinvention that often takes place when the company is in a good position and is healthy.

There is a cultural factor to this continuous reinvention the ability to focus relentlessly on customers needs, to drive change from the top, and to access the top talent. But there is also a technological factor. Reinvention often consists of launching novel services and/or products and substantially changing internal processes, and knowing what technology is available to you and deploying it effectively plays a key role in accomplishing these changes.

Cloud computing makes it easier to pursue reinvention and enables builders to deploy a broad set of tools and capabilities as they imagine a new way forward.

The shift to remote working and the other effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have accelerated the adoption of the cloud by several years. Organisations have had to rapidly adapt to deal with the challenges that the pandemic has presented. Cloud computing has proven an effective tool in meeting these needs quickly, reliably, and without the need for employees to travel or work in close proximity to one another.

It has been incredible seeing how our customers have implemented agile and innovative solutions this year, using cloud computing during the pandemic to adapt to operating remotely. One such example is Morrisons. The British retailer built a cost-effective and flexible contact centre system on Amazon Connect in just eight weeks. The new scalable solution enabled Morrisons to respond immediately to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, and within a day, it enabled every single person in the contact centre to work from home. It was also able to quickly hire a broad range of people from across the nation such as travel-industry employees who had lost jobs to respond to the increased call volume, which had swelled to as much as six times the weekly average. AWS APN Partner, Voice Foundry, also used Amazon Connect to help local councils manage call volumes from residents during the pandemic. Not only did it ensure they could meet citizens needs at this critical time, it ensured employees could attend to calls without having to leave their homes.

Depending on the size of the organisation, there are a number of steps that can help ensure a smooth and effective transition to the cloud.

One of the underlying aspects is having well-equipped and well-trained staff. For small businesses and startups this often means hiring people with the right skills who can bring their experience and knowledge. Smaller companies often dont have the luxury of time to train people meaning that hiring people with experience is the easiest way to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.

For bigger organisations, who often have well-developed product and IT teams, and hundreds or thousands of employees, replacing or re-hiring talent is not an option. For these organisations, training becomes a very important prerequisite for initiating cloud migration. One of the first things we do when working with large, enterprise businesses is to develop what we call an AWS Cloud Enablement Engine. This is a dedicated business unit within the organisation that is focused on helping with the cultural changes needed to get the most from the cloud. This can be everything from setting up governance frameworks, so cloud consumption can happen in line with an organisations regulatory obligations, through to developing training and certification programs to up-skill all employees on AWS technologies and new ways of thinking.

Secondly, working with partners who specialise in cloud adoption can have a positive impact on the overall cloud migration experience. Companies should look for partners who bring a wealth of expertise in this area and who have a strong record of delivering similar projects for other organisations.

Lastly, it is also important to put in place early foundations for cloud adoption. This includes integrating identity management systems with cloud providers and establishing policies and processes, as well as security protocols, that could be later used to facilitate cloud adoption.

When it comes to global cloud adoption, we are just at the beginning of the journey. According to Gartner, public cloud is projected to make up 14.2% of the global enterprise IT spending market in 2024, up from 9.1% this year.

For the most part, IT is still delivered by traditional models, where customers own and operate their own infrastructure and data centres. However, as more organisations start to realise the benefits of cloud computing, in part accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the major shift to online this year, we can expect a considerable uptake of cloud adoption and usage over the coming years. However, its important to note that cloud will quite often co-exist with existing IT infrastructure in a variety of hybrid cloud models, and in other instances lift and shift migrations will see applications or workloads being migrated directly from on-premises to the cloud. These approaches speed up innovation and growth, enabling businesses to adopt cloud technologies in the way that best suits their requirements.

But for cloud adoption to be successful, investing in tech skills will become imperative over the next few years. At AWS, we want to enable our customers to fully benefit from cloud-based technologies, and during re:Invent 2020 we announced our initiative to help 29 million people globally grow their tech skills by 2025 with free cloud computing skills training. This training will be available to people from all walks of life and all levels of knowledge, and we have a variety of pre-existing programmes that address a diverse array of training needs. AWS Academy enables students and educators access to content and programs developed to skill up for cloud careers in growing fields. AWS re/Start prepares have been out of the workforce for 12 months or more, and are looking to return to work.

And were just getting started. Despite AWS being around for 14 years, it is still early days for cloud adoption. Cloud wont just replace everything. Instead, new applications and new systems will default to the cloud and will grow fast. This means that over time, cloud computing is already vitalfor organisations who want to build applications and run their technologies quickly, seamlessly, and securely, and its importance will only increase.

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