Here's a big list of free tech from companies like Microsoft, Google, and Cisco to help companies deal with remote work amid the coronavirus crisis

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• The coronavirus pandemic is giving enterprise technology vendors a moment to shine.
• Companies are suddenly mandated to allow the vast majority of their white-collar employees to work from home.
• Enterprise tools that support and assist with remote work are offering free versions of their tools to help IT pros deal with the sudden situation.
• Here's a list of some of the most useful offers.
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In an quirk of fate, the coronavirus pandemic is giving enterprise technology vendors a moment to shine. Vendors have been talking about the digitization of business for years - that is, taking manual processes and making them digital or virtual.

Now major corporations worldwide are forced to have all employees work from home in order to practice social distancing and help stem the spread of COVID-19, the coronavirus disease. And the star of the show has become the technology that allows them to do so.

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Tech companies say that their customers are calling them up and asking them how to keep business going when the workforce is entirely remote. Their answer is to let companies try their wares for free for a time. Such trials will almost certainly lead to new paying users once the crises is past - though it remains to be seen how many, exactly, will stick around.

The following is a list of the best, most useful offers that we've come across so far.

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