A consistent theme when analyzing #COVID19's impact on Enterprise IT is that:

- Cloud spend will take off
- Budget impact might be smaller than predicted
- AI/ML might be at risk if no visible ROI
- Some obvious slowdown

Sources and quotes in the thread below.

Slides 9-11 from @MayfieldFund @NavinChaddha are quite relevant.
- To The Cloud - 85% Said Yes!
- Rethinking CapEx and OpEx
- More spend on "high ROI, cyber, cloud/SaaS and productivity needs" https://www.slideshare.net/NavinChaddha/mayfield-cxo-survey-post-covid19-impacts-to-it-231761624

- "Cybersecurity, data protection/DR and public cloud initiatives are the most likely to gain a boost"
- "... only 3% of survey respondents indicated they will reduce headcount permanently"
@klmacomber @JohnSWebster @evaluator_group https://www.evaluatorgroup.com/enterprise-it-responds-covid-19-study/

If you have other data-driven sources that either support or refute the above facts, drop me a note. I would love to add them to this thread.