No one was ready for COVID-19—but some organizations were more prepared than others. Companies with cloud architecture are among those that have successfully weathered the storm, as it’s allowed them to be agile and respond to rapid changes in the macro environment. To give you some insight on how we’ve responded to these unique circumstances, our “Okta-on-Okta Remote Work” webinar series maps the steps we took to grow our remote workforce from 30% to 100%—in a matter of days. In this first installment, we examine why hosting our IT architecture in the cloud was a crucial part of our success. The benefits of cloud-based architecture In 2009, when less than a third of organizations were leveraging cloud computing in any capacity, Okta was founded on a radical decision: there would be no on-premises servers or data centers. Instead, the company’s IT services would all be based in the.