A year ago, most knowledge workers commuted to an office. Today, they work from home. As communication goes digital, companies are faced with new challenges and new pressures on their network infrastructure.

“Every day we are running something like 20,000 meetings and 16 million zoom minutes per day,” said Rajesh Janey (pictured, left), senior vice president of global alliances at Dell Technologies Inc. “Our VPN traffic user load just tripled.”

Janey, Utpal Bakshi (pictured, center), global head of the hi-tech vertical at Wipro Ltd., and Satish Yadavalli (pictured, right), VP and head of the global cloud and infrastructure practice at Wipro, spoke with Jeff Frick, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Dell Technologies World Digital Experience event. They discussed how to handle enforced, rapid digital transformation. (* Disclosure below.)

Wipro provides blocks to build the boundaryless enterprise

Wipro is a digital business solutions company with close to 175,000 employees across the globe. Like Dell Technologies (whose employees went remote over a weekend due to the pandemic), when lockdown occurred, WiPro pivoted fast.

Thanks to its existing boundaryless enterprise solution and video architectures powered by Dell EMC VxRail with VMware NSX, the company was able to build capacity on-premises and on-cloud in less than 24-hours to cope with the increase in demand, according to Yadavalli.

“One hundred percent of the workforce … started coming from the internet to access the corporate infrastructure and then gain access to the customer network,” Yadavalli said. “We had to quickly swing in with our solutions and got our engineering teams to reengineer and tweet the infrastructure and security architecture to this new normal.”

The boundaryless enterprise consists of five building blocks aimed to hit the five main pinch points of digital transformation. These are the boundaryless data center, the boundaryless container platform, boundaryless data protection, the boundaryless cloud exchange, and the boundaryless integration platform.

Business boundaries were dissolving before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but the increased speed under which companies have been forced to transform has exposed ill-prepared businesses.

“We are in a period of what is called an enforced innovation,” Janey said. “There are two key priorities for every organization in this time: One, build resilient operations; and second, employee safety. These two parameters have forced the organization to look at their businesses differently, look at their IT infrastructure differently.”

Forced to adapt but strapped for cash flow, businesses are turning to companies such as WiPro for help.

“A lot more conversations are around ‘We want to transform. Help us find a way to make the transformation sooner, with maybe less investment upfront and find a way to fund this from the future savings we’ll get so that we can be ready for the future without necessarily impacting the bottom line today,’” Bakshi said.

The positive about this is that it is bringing new approaches to doing business and creative business models, he concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World Digital Experience event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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