Eighty-five percent of businesses plan to maintain or increase their tech budgets this year, having taken a key lesson from the pandemic to heart: innovation is more crucial than ever . 1 For a business that processes $6 trillion a day, slipping up is not an option. So when global fintech leader Broadridge, whose equity-based transaction system is used by 18 of the 23 largest exchange dealers, decided to shift its critical daily processes from silo servers to a flexible cloud environment, any downtime was unthinkable.