Companies looking to maintain their competitive advantage and improve the quality of manufacturing activities should migrate their operations to the cloud and reap the benefits: better scalability, quicker turnaround times, increased revenues, and cost savings, among others.

Is it possible the public cloud isn't the be-all and end-all solution it claims to be?

The acceleration of digital transformation caused by the pandemic will continue for at least the next couple of years. Rapid and often continuous data center retooling is expected as businesses rely on and respond to the above trends to meet their evolving customer, employee, and partner needs.

There is extensive reliance on IaaS-, SaaS-, and PaaS-based solutions, providing significant impetus to market growth for cloud computing.