Pandemic responses lean heavily on cloud scalability to adapt to new business demands. In 2021, companies will target fast wins with immediate advantages like shunning on-premises backups and finally moving disaster recovery (DR) to the cloud. But cloud adoption won’t go on without challenges in 2021: Governments will also start to exert more influence over where and how companies can use cloud. In this report, we explore Forrester’s predictions for cloud computing in 2021.