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2022 Planning Guide for Cloud and Edge Computing

Cloud adoption continues to accelerate as businesses seek agility, flexibility and new sources of competitive advantage

Expert(s): Paul Delory, Lydia Leong, Tony Iams, Matthew Brisse, Douglas Toombs, Ang Troy, Stanton Cole, Fintan Quinn, Mohini Dukes, Marco Meinardi

Businesses worldwide are preparing for 2022 to be a year of economic uncertainty, anxiety and threat. They need the flexibility and scalability of cloud services to respond in real time to rapidly shifting and unpredictable conditions.

Nearly every enterprise already makes at least some use of the public cloud; to avoid cloud entirely is almost inconceivable. But many cloud implementations are poor. Too often, deployments are ad hoc, implementations are inconsistent, costs are poorly controlled or governance is incomplete. Moreover, there remain some barriers to cloud adoption.

Gartner predicts, in 2022, cloud and edge computing will be shaped by six long-term trends, which must inform the decisions of cloud technical professionals.

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