Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise.

Staff Writer/ November 14, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data centre networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLeading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required. By Joe O’Halloran The brave new world of hybrid working is having a profound effect on the technological infrastructure of businesses. With soaring demand for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and cloud to support the

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A recipe for developing customer experience in post-pandemic times.

Staff Writer/ November 11, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Customer relationship management (CRM), Datacenter Infrastructure News, E-Commerce, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Timeless Aricles

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesCovid-19 has led to many people reassessing their priorities so customer experience needs to adapt to meet new expectations. By Cliff Saran The Covid-19 pandemic forced people to reassess their priorities and what they value most in their lives. While there is a slow recovery to the pre-pandemic norm, there is also a growing sense that there are a number

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Covid-19 pandemic has underlined importance of peripherals

Staff Writer/ October 25, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe experience of Tech Data in the education market over the past 20 months has shown the value of getting the right tools into the hands of users. By Simon Quicke The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on almost every aspect of life and every customer, including those that operate in the education market. Classrooms were closed last year during

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Why some businesses have been struggling to get to grips with working from home

Staff Writer/ October 25, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Articles, Working Remotely

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe look at the reasons why some businesses have struggled to maintain productivity levels, staff engagement or creativity in remote working setups By Sridhar Iyengar Remote working, whether full time, hybrid part time, or via a ‘choose your own’ work-from-home (WFH) model, has clearly become the operational structure of choice for many former fully office-based workplaces. This has resulted in

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Establish a business continuity team to get the full picture

Staff Writer/ September 15, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, business continuity plan (BCP), Business continuity planning, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Disaster recovery planning - management, Disaster recovery storage, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, Small business disaster recovery

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBusiness continuity teams provide insight and focus that can keep an organization on its feet when disaster strikes. Don’t rely on a disaster recovery team to reduce downtime. By Alan R. Earls Business continuity and disaster recovery are grouped together by many organizations, but the teams in charge of these operations serve different purposes. Along with a disaster recovery team,

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What a session key is in web browsing; a detailed definition, explanation and examples.

Staff Writer/ July 25, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Facilities & Operations, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Web security tools

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA session key is an encryption and decryption key that is randomly generated to ensure the security of a communications session between a user and another computer or between two computers. By TechTarget Contributor Session keys are sometimes called symmetric keys because the same key is used for both encryption and decryption. The session key is used for only one session. It is then discarded, and

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2021 networking trends for a post-pandemic enterprise

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 24, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Network management and monitoring, Network Security, Network visibility

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesIn 2020, the pandemic threw the best-laid IT plans into chaos. As enterprises find their footing again, here are four network trends defining the second half of 2021. By Alissa Irei The COVID-19 crisis supercharged several major 2021 networking trends that appear poised to outlast the pandemic itself. As enterprises inch cautiously toward normalcy, organizations are pushing ahead with cloud,

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Post-pandemic IT: Are virtual datacentre tours here to stay?

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 26, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA physical tour of a datacentre has traditionally been a key marketing and selling tool for colocation operators, and the Covid-19 pandemic has forced many to provide virtual alternatives. But how do they compare? By Nicholas Fearn A physical tour of a datacentre has traditionally been an important part of the sales process for any colocation operator looking to entice

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The future of e-commerce: Trends, tips, traps to avoid

T-Blog Editor/ May 6, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Digital business transformation, Digital business transformation and innovation, Expert Advise and Opinion, Facilities & Operations, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 11 minutesThe term ‘e-commerce’ has been around for decades. What does it mean for today’s businesses? Not what it did in the 1990s or even a mere 12 months ago. By Mary K. Pratt Amazon is approaching its 30th anniversary, set to mark the milestone in 2024. The World Wide Web hits 35 the same year. E-commerce, the buying and selling of

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How to monitor remote workers humanely

Staff Writer/ January 10, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Remote Working, Tekmart Partner Content, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesMonitoring employees who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest ways of doing it humanely and legally. By SA Mathieson “For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,” wrote the lawyer and politician Edward Coke in 1628, the

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