For the first ten years, the cloud was more about disrupting things by itself. Now, it is the underpinning for many of these other disruptions that are getting their day in the sun. Gartner analyst David Mitchell Smith explains that most of the candidates for the Next Big Thing -- like IoT, AI, digital business -- all require cloud computing as an underpinning for making them work.

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