What key cloud trends will influence IT investments as enterprises reassess their IT implementations in preparation for the year ahead? Amitabh Sinha, CEO of Workspot, shares predictions.
In 2025, organizations were challenged with significant cloud related hurdles to cross. Executives have had to strategically manage budgets to deal with cloudflation, while security teams have been frustrated by relentless ransomware attacks despite having taken prevention measures. Additionally, IT teams came under increasing pressure to provide fast, efficient, and secure user access as younger generations push hybrid and remote work styles to ubiquity.
As the end of 2025 approaches, we see innovative solutions to these challenges emerge. Fresh thinking about cloud computing budgeting practices, selection of technology that inherently supports hybrid work, and innovation that helps sustain companies during ransomware recovery are all key topics for some deep thinking in 2025. So, let’s take an in depth look at these cloud trends for 2025 and beyond.
Hybrid Work: The Forefront of the Future
The hyper digital generations, including Gen Z and others, have found professional and personal value through a hybrid work experience. With shifting budgets and newer implementations within the enterprise, we’ll see the hybrid work model have a greater impact on new technology selection.
This workforce social paradigm shift, where employees have increased power to make demands about where and how they want to work, will force the hand of organizations (even more so) to guarantee their benefits reflect the hybrid era. As work models evolve into hybrid, cloud computing will be fundamental for keeping pace with the ongoing generational influence on workforce structures, providing new levels of agility that drive competitive advantage, and finding and retaining the top new talent that will take the business into the future.