Enterprises have undertaken the cloud and artificial intelligence action plan on a priority basis over the past few years. With the pandemic, it has metamorphosed into a survival challenge. Cloud adoption has seen significant progress as C-suite executives increasingly shift focus to strategies like automation, strengthening data governance capabilities and technology modernisation. Cloud-enabling applications are now increasingly viewed as a step towards setting digital transformational goals, as it improves application performance, provides better insights through data and revs up the development lifecycle. In the concluding part of this two-part series on hybrid cloud architecture, some of India’s top tech leaders from across industries share insights on the evolving technology.