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By all accounts, business spending on cloud services accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gartner Inc.’s new 2021 cloud computing forecast confirms it.
The research firm said today it expects worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services to grow 23.1% in 2021, to $332.3 billion, up from the 19% growth in 2020. “The events of last year allowed CIOs to overcome any reluctance of moving mission-critical workloads from on-premises to the cloud,” Sid Nag, a Gartner research vice president, said in a statement.
Software-as-a-service remains the largest market segment at $102.8 billion in 2020, expected to grow to $122.6 billion this year. Gartner foresees the biggest gainers in 2021 to be infrastructure-as-a-service and desktop-as-a-service, at 38.5% and 67.7%, respectively.
5 Trends That Are Shaping The Future Of Field Inspections
By Boris Glushkov, Canalix
What changed in the field inspection methods?
2020 reshaped the future vision for performing field inspections. The reason is the usual suspect – COVID-19 and the need to protect public health. Many organizations now are transforming their operations to become more effective in the new normal. Among them are inspection agencies and inspectorates.
In the first months of the pandemic, a variety of practices in restructuring the process of field inspections were observed. For instance, the on-site inspections had to be performed in compliance with the new social distancing rules, remote inspections were introduced, and third-party carriers were involved.