For years, the phrase “digital transformation” has been used to describe everything from the process of modernizing applications to creating new digital business models. While many organizations were embarking on a digital transformation strategy before 2020, the pandemic increased the urgency for businesses to embrace a new IT model. With employees working from home, any processes that were still manual needed to be reinvented and brought online. The result was a spike in the usage of cloud technologies, as organizations raced to keep their businesses running. The rapid pace of cloud adoption also brought a number of critical realizations that CXOs are still working to solve.
Data centers are changing to deliver services closer to the customer, but the location of specific workloads is dependent on a number of factors, including business, regulatory, and geopolitical impacts. Today, a majority of businesses are embarking on a multi-cloud strategy, which includes on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud platforms.