2709, 2020

Business leaders must use lessons of the present to get future-ready

T-Blog Editor/ September 27, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Collaboration software and productivity software, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesResearch reveals the impact of Covid-19 on the digital workplace, and how technology will enable new ways of working. By Joe O’Halloran With the new normal rapidly becoming just the normal, employee welfare productivity, especially among remote workers, is increasingly becoming more important. Companies are now having to spin up new digital workplaces where remote workers both have the right

2709, 2020

Coronavirus shows inadequacy of rear-view mirror planning

T-Blog Editor/ September 27, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Business continuity planning, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLooking at historical data has hampered businesses’ attempts to move forward effectively during the pandemic By Cliff Saran The coronavirus has illustrated how fragile global supplies are, and how easily disruptions in other parts of the world can halt production lines and prevent supermarkets from keeping shelves stocked. Speaking at the recent Reuters Supply Chain Europe 2020 event, Oscar de Bok, CEO

2009, 2020

Working through the Covid-19 lockdown: What to look for in a datacentre partner

T-Blog Editor/ September 20, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Best practices for data center operations, Covid-19 Global Responses, Data center design and facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIn this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres, talks about how Covid-19 has changed what enterprises want from their datacentre partners. By Caroline Donnelly More than 100 million people are in strict lockdown across Europe as governments and health systems attempt to battle the spread of the devastating Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. And, while normal life

1409, 2020

5 steps to create a coronavirus crisis management response plan

T-Blog Editor/ September 14, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Disaster recovery planning - management, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into many traditional BCDR plans. Here are five tips to update your crisis response plans and help your business weather the storm. By Alan R. Earls In a few short weeks, the COVID-19 crisis has upended daily life and businesses around the world. Unlike more traditional natural disasters, where one region is affected

1309, 2020

COVID-19 puts IT infrastructure spending in flux

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Data center budget and culture, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs the pandemic continues, research firms state that organizations must realign IT budgets to support projects that maintain operations and put nonessential initiatives on hold. By Meredith Courtemanche The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted 2020 IT infrastructure spending and projects across all types of industries. Months into this abrupt economic and workplace change, and without an end in sight, organizations must make

1109, 2020

Guide to business continuity planning during COVID-19

T-Blog Editor/ September 11, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Disaster recovery planning - management, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesThis guide offers information on the effect of the coronavirus on enterprises and the need for pandemic and business continuity planning to keep businesses safe and in operation. By Sandra Gittlen Published: 10 Jun 2020 Companies are beginning to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses and processes. Properly assessing this requires a review of corporate business continuity

0809, 2020

Terms to aid your pandemic recovery planning process

T-Blog Editor/ September 8, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Disaster recovery planning - management, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWhen updating your organization’s pandemic plan, it can help to have these terms handy. These tools, processes and standards are key to a solid recovery plan. By Erin Sullivan Published: 25 Aug 2020 In the middle of a global pandemic, organizations around the world are at different stages of recovery. While some businesses may be in the reopening phase, many are

0709, 2020

Future of remote work will be heavily influenced by COVID-19

T-Blog Editor/ September 7, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCOVID-19 has made working from home a reality for many workers, but what is the future of remote work? Will current policies persist, or will it be back to business as usual? By Mike Gleason Published: 16 Apr 2020 Work-from-home technology has proven itself in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, experts said, erasing some of the productivity worries that held

0709, 2020

End-user productivity becomes a priority for remote work

T-Blog Editor/ September 7, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise Desktop Management, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe initial response to COVID-19 focused on purchasing new technologies and retooling systems to support work from home, but organizations must help maintain end-user productivity. By John Powers Published: 26 May 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, organizations were forced to purchase and adopt new technologies to enable remote work setups. Those that successfully transitioned to a work-from-home model must now

0609, 2020

The new future of work

T-Blog Editor/ September 6, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe may come to stop talking about ‘remote’ working altogether after the coronavirus pandemic. It could become just ‘working’ – part of the normal mix of how things are done By Bev White, Harvey Nash Published: 29 May 2020 The speed with which the Covid-19 coronavirus has forced companies into universal remote working has moved us forward to a place that, in my view,