Reading Time: 2 minutes Cloud technologies have now become a must in the pharmaceutical industry. Leading life-sciences companies are discovering the potency of cloud data in enabling analytics, shrinking innovation cycles, and standardizing processes across global operations, among other benefits. For example, Moderna delivered its first clinical batch of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate to the US National Institutes of Health for Phase I trial only 42 days after the initial sequencing of the virus by using cloud technology.