Top 5 Cloud Adoption Trends in 2021

Over the past two months, our Cloud Computing India survey revealed many emerging technology adoption trends across sectors. We could spot that Indian businesses traditionally invest heavily in owned IT infrastructure for data security and bespoke requirements. However, of late, the trend is shifting towards leveraging a hybrid cloud environment as we advance in 2021 (32% of Research NXT 2021 Cloud Computing Survey respondents have plans for adopting a hybrid cloud setup in 2021). They are doing it to primarily scale their on-premises infrastructure to match the robustness of the modern-day application. Moreover, Hybrid cloud allows on-premises IT, private cloud and public clouds to interact seamlessly within optimum costs.

Here are five interesting cloud adoption trends emerging from our interaction with the market that will shape the new normal.