Amazon in late April announced that it would expand its tech hub in Vancouver, planning to hire 3,000 engineers with experience in cloud computing and machine learning. The company also announced plans to add 2,000 tech jobs in the Boston area, focused on improving the company's Alexa and Audible technologies. Amazon Web Services in June announced it would be adding 1,000 engineers to its Dublin, Ireland, offices over the next two years, including software development engineers, network development engineers, security and big-data specialists, and development operations engineers. Walmart in June told VentureBeat that it would be adding 2,000 tech workers to its Walmart Labs operations in Silicon Valley; Bentonville, Arkansas; Reston, Virginia; and Bangalore, India, with many focused on using machine learning to improve its online shopping tools. PayPal India announced in July that it would be hiring 600 additional engineers this year, including application developers, back-end developers, data engineers, and product managers.

Frustrated with the impact of technology advances on infrastructure upgrades and IT budgets, a growing number of organizations are opting for cloud computing investments instead.

There's a growing science around resiliency, not just because of technology improvements, but because there's an inherent link to the efficiency of people and process,