Most businesses would have sunk in the face of the challenges raised by the pandemic as recently as a decade ago. But over the years, advancements in technology have given organizations the ability to swim amid a disruption of this nature, as the cloud and other emerging technologies joined forces to become a life preserver in a sea of uncertain times.

There's no question, COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented shift in the way businesses and consumers will work and think forever. The global lockdowns and social distancing mandates have not only accelerated the adoption of remote working and virtual learning but have also pushed consumers to try online shopping, telehealth, virtual workouts, virtual tutoring, streaming entertainment, and much more out of necessity. Trends that were expected to take a decade to take hold were adopted in a matter of weeks.