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to identify whether they are or will be using certain technologies to their full potential .”
As well as accelerating remote working , the pandemic has also served to increase the pace of cloud adoption in all areas , though some have experienced even more pronounced growth . “ Most organisations within the commercial sector were already migrating towards the cloud pre-pandemic , and the pandemic has had a direct effect on the adoption of services such as Office 365 , especially Teams ,” says Unisys ’ Turner . “ Of the industries we work with , the one that has experienced the most accelerated cloud adoption has to be the public sector . Government agencies , the NHS and education facilities all started to migrate to the cloud , and are now establishing new hybrid workplaces that were not set up before .” It is the utility of hybrid cloud solutions combining public and private clouds that has become particularly apparent . “ The pandemic has led to many organisations to think about what hybrid solutions can mean for their business and what it means to digitise , going beyond using Office 365 . For many organisations , they ’ ve started to think about implementing ERP and procurement applications to facilitate their hybrid workforces , and this is largely down to employees having to work from home almost overnight . Suddenly , organisations have had to think about how each area of the business is connected and how their workforce can remain efficient whilst working from home and on-premise .”
With workers outside of offices , old established norms , like hosting applications and data on site , have begun to make less sense . A new imperative has emerged to transform IT infrastructure for the new normal , moving to the cloud and enabling remote working while remaining secure .
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