 With burgeoning cloud and hybrid IT complexity, driven by constant innovation, executives warn of the near impossibility of providing reliable systems and security. Introducing smart observability can enable businesses to better understand and swiftly remedy emerging technology problems before lasting damage is done.
Recently ranked as one of the Top 100 Women in Technology by Gigabit magazine, Jacqueline Teo has a wealth of experience shaping digital transformations.
To keep disparate teams motivated, she notes, business leaders are increasingly expected to demonstrate authenticity and awareness around issues from fairness and inclusion, to environmental responsibility and social justice.  British companies are among the most likely to blame ill fitting tools for cyber attacks. Intelligent technology is increasingly being used to bolster cyber defences, but companies are unsure which tools to select and how to implement them.
 Levels of reliance on technology have been rising consistently in a mobile-first world and as people’s homes fill with internet-connected devices, a trend accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Downtime causes significant annoyance and is ever more common as systems fail to integrate.
 Essential work from home policies introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic have also created a raft of operational blind spots that hackers can access. Companies need a fresh approach, intelligently securing all devices employees use.
For former office-based staff, working all or part of their time from home is ever more clearly a permanent shift. New research shows that more than eight in ten staff have increased their time working from home since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and many expect this high level of home working to remain in place.  Offshore wind power has rapidly ascended the ranks of energy sources in the past decade. Its growth is expected to continue, with generation capacity predicted to soar from 35GW to 234GW over the next 10 years. However, maintaining offshore wind assets can be a highly polluting exercise in itself, requiring a smarter approach.
 By deploying their first server, or upgrading to a more powerful server solution, organisations can protect operational uptime and performance, as well as their ability to scale and adapt to meet market demands. For small businesses in those scenarios, buying a first server and centralising operations means securing significant efficiency gains and being able to action ideas more quickly. This white paper examines how small businesses can drive performance and agility by utilising PowerEdge Servers from Dell.
 In pre-pandemic times, managers sought to build a team culture with their ever-present office workers. Productivity, collaboration, enthusiasm and team spirit were developed and nurtured over many years, with each new team member gradually brought into the fold.
The advent of coronavirus lockdowns changed all that - and balancing productivity and wellbeing could prove a major challenge.  Today’s business leaders need succinct and actionable information at their fingertips. Pertinent data, drawn from in-memory systems such as SAP HANA, can shape long term strategies, while enhancing day-to-day operations and empowering employees at every level.
But no matter their scale, most organizations currently struggle to build infrastructure that best enables their information to be deployed for strategic impact. Small company technology managers and enterprise chief information officers alike operate under a deluge of customer data from multiple sources, requiring processing and analysis on a massive scale. In this context, establishing a comprehensive and targeted view of information is crucial to competitiveness.  Coronavirus has placed unprecedented pressure on companies to digitalise their operations. Smart businesses are prioritising process excellence with customer-centric, omni-channel offerings.
Covid-19 has created radically new realities for businesses, driving an urgent need to learn how to continue serving customers and operating efficiently while balancing the demands of mandatory physical distancing and multiplying online processes. |
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