Covid-19 speeds up IR4.0


Green Packet managing director and CEO C.C. Puan

DESPITE the gloomy business outlook, parts of the technology sector are benefiting from the Covid-19 crisis due to the hurried pace of digital transformation of businesses.

Just this week, Microsoft posted a stellar quarterly result and said that it saw two years worth of digital transformation taking place in two months, driven by an increase in remote working and learning along with rising demand for critical cloud-computing infrastructure.

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