More Big Picture: It’s Not Just Cloud Adoption – It’s Innovation, Too

“The disruption caused by the recent pandemic will accelerate the adoption of IT innovation at an unprecedented rate,” says Nutanix’s Alvarez. “This new normal will redefine how we do everything – from where we work to telemedicine, from education to e-trading and how data is securely accessed from anywhere at any time.”

The new normal further will mean reliance on new and quickly growing tools: machine learning, artificial intelligence, unparalleled computing power and 5G, in particular, Alvarez says. Google Cloud’s White sees AI/ML as most critical to every business strategy.

“To emerge successfully from COVID-19, the organizations that will succeed are those who not only put an emphasis on a great user experience, but also predict changing user habits and course-correct, fast. Technologies like AI and ML will be crucial to extracting meaningful insights from data sets,” White says.