The happenings of this year have turned the forecasts made about 2020 on their head. Although some of the trends in industries such as supply chain and logistics have suffered the most due to coronavirus, cloud computing has continued to define how companies work as most operations have shifted to remote environments. The adoption of cloud computing is promising to increase productivity and reduce operations costs by ensuring a limited investment in infrastructure and office space. With the rise of technologies such as AI, IoT, and blockchain, the cloud is expected to improve substantially. For the coming year, here are some cloud computing trends that will change the existing enterprise set up.

As another hurricane season becomes a harrowing memory, the specter of blizzards and ice storms begin to appear just over the horizon. Power outages can happen at the most inopportune time, and the incidence of ransomware attacks continues to increase at an alarming rate. There is an ever-present potential for an event that could be classified as a disaster impacting your business’s IT infrastructure. If your organization is not prepared, there can be long-lasting ramifications that affect your business in multiple ways.

High performance computing (HPC) is a method for solving large and complex problems in business, science, and engineering. By aggregating available computing power, higher performance can be provided than that which is possible with standard hardware and software. Cutting-edge research in many fields relies on the power available in HPC systems.

The United States’ federal government is a major consumer of computing services. Previous articles have talked about the FedRAMP approval process used to ensure the security and functionality of cloud services before they can be adopted by any federal agencies. This time, we are going to look at how cloud services are being used by the civilian arm of the Federal Government.