The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged us into an entirely new reality and, subsequently, heightened the need for teams to work productively and efficiently not only in person but remotely. Fortunately, IT teams have mobilized and quickly proposed different alternatives. They now must transform these temporary tools into next-generation solutions that may very well become the new standards of tomorrow.
Since the beginning of the crisis, many companies have reoriented their projects around solutions that can be integrated with the public Cloud. Migrating virtual environments, developing applications, backing up and recovering data on the Cloud, setting up virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) … there are a growing number of use cases.
One of the first business needs identified during the current pandemic was for employees to be able to work remotely. Within days, IT teams mobilized and proposed different options to access the most critical applications and information systems—and the work continues.
Well before the pandemic began, companies started to look at the Public Cloud, often adopting a hybrid approach.
In several recent backup architecture review projects, we had the chance to assess many solutions, all of which can be integrated with the public Cloud. Of course, when it comes to software solutions, the differences between products and their ease of use emerge in the details of each functionality and possible limitations.
In light of what’s occurred in recent months, businesses are facing a number of IT operations management challenges. With most employees now working from home, temporary staff reductions and workplace access restrictions, many IT teams have had to completely revise their ways of doing things.
One of the first business needs identified during the current pandemic was for employees to be able to work remotely. Within days, IT teams mobilized and proposed different options to access the most critical applications and information systems—and the work continues.
Copy of article (source: IBM Blog, par Xerxes Cooper | June 5th 2020) Open letter to the Chief Information Officers (CIO) and the IT Teams from Quebec businesses
In 2020, there are many reasons to present the advantages to perform a formal IT Health check at least once a year. The same reality applies to the installation, infrastructure services and business applications that you would have started placing in the public Cloud.
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