The adoption of Cloud technology is not just about survival; it's about thriving in a new technological era. Visionary companies around the world like Nintendo are leveraging these new capabilities, these new superpowers to reshape human activity in dozens of industries. These superpowers bring us innovations like the self-driving car, revolutionizing the transportation industry once again. The same is true for smarter assistants, which are already changing how we behave and how quickly and easily we get things done. Think about it. Smart assistants let you use your voice or the natural way you write to get the information you need in milliseconds. For instance, if you're driving and a traffic jam suddenly occurs, an alternative route is instantly suggested just in time for you to act accordingly. And there's more. The Cloud's extraordinary compute capability is combined with very large amount of data captured in ways we have never known before. The Internet of Things, also referred to as IoT is composed of smartphones, connected appliances, mobile sensors and wearable devices. It has become so present in our everyday life that we don't "go" online anymore, we "live" online, and while doing so, receive and provide vast quantities of data at every moment. This was already true with the invention of the radio and the television, but the scale and the speed at which we share data have tremendously increased. Our ability to compute that data has followed an exponential curve known as Moore's Law. The results is that today we can build highly accurate statistical models to predict complex behaviors and use that information to anticipate intent. This is the most profound aspects of the cloud revolution. This creates many challenges such as, avoiding biases, maintaining privacy, but there is no service economy without knowledge, and there can be no knowledge economy without trust. Which is why building a trustworthy cloud-based platform should be at the core of every leader's strategic agenda in the coming years. On top of predictive capabilities, the cloud will deliver high performance analytics and enable businesses to reduce equipment downtime, achieve more accurate supply planning and maintain leaner operational organizations. The superpowers of the cloud are also changing the way we work. They are automating processes and creating open and real-time collaboration opportunities between people globally - business stakeholders, customers, students and constituents. In all of these cases, there are two common ingredients: compute power and data. Not just any compute power or a few files containing data, but extraordinary compute power and very large volumes of data. Let's break this down.
