For several years, the rate of cloud adoption has been steadily growing as businesses of all sizes realise its numerous cost and productivity benefits. The emergence of COVID-19 and the ongoing disruption to traditional office-orientated business models, however, have driven adoption levels to unprecedented heights. In fact, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently claimed that his company saw two years of digital transformation in just two months at the start of the pandemic, with cloud adoption playing a huge role in that.