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That is why, even now, during the difficult times for everyone, we have to get organized. Whatever can go up in the <strong>Cloud<\/strong>, it has to go up. Infrastructure, applications, services and even telephony, our expertly, can be &#8220;served&#8221; reliably and safely through Public Internet, reducing the burden of central infrastructure. The facts show that under pressure we work better. We have a hard time, but we succeed. Even so, it&#8217;s good. As the saying goes: <strong>every crisis creates opportunities<\/strong>. The digital transformation from its long-term plan, was implemented within 2 months, and it came to stay.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">In conclusion &#8211; Now that we are home,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">cloud is the<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> solution.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few days of intensive work from home, helping our clients meet the challenge of teleworking and thinking about all the technical and organizational issues we had to deal with, I came to the conclusion that we were finally not ready to tackle COVID-19 technologically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Were we technologically prepared to work from home? 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