COVID-19-Induced Movement Control Order Catalyses Cloud Adoption in Malaysia

At a recent webinar hosted by Disruptive Tech Asean, Dr. Dzahar Mansor, National Technology Officer of Microsoft Malaysia, commented on how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s perception towards working on the cloud.

Although technology and infrastructure are crucial considerations, Dr. Mansor added that the biggest challenge was changing peoples’ mind-set to drive a digital transformation and that COVID-19 had enforced these changes on organisations.

Dr. Mansor supported these views by stating that Malaysia had witnessed a sudden spike of cloud adoption during the movement control order imposed due to COVID-19, this trend indicating that organisations were very...