BizTech magazine. In many ways, 2020 was the year of the cloud: Businesses of all types found that their success in managing the trials of that year depended at least somewhat on the extent to which they were already running key workloads in the cloud, or the speed with which they could make the transition. Ferguson Enterprises, a Newport News, Va.-based distributor of plumbing, heating, ventilation and air conditioning supplies, made the transition “practically overnight” — or, more precisely, over a “week or two” with a “couple of long nights and weekends,” recalled Scott Wright, an enterprise cloud architect for the company, speaking at Microsoft Ignite, the annual conference for Microsoft customers, partners and analysts, happening virtually through March 4.