Tag: COVID-19

November 2, 2022

The air travel industry has dealt with significant change and uncertainty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, JetBlue Airways decided its competitive advantage depended on IT — in particular, on transforming its data stack to consolidate data […]

January 5, 2022

Every December, I spend time thinking about where the software ecosystem will go over the year ahead. For the past decade, that’s meant focusing on cloud computing, as it’s long been the dominant software trend. The past year, however, (and […]

December 10, 2021

For several years, the rate of cloud adoption has been steadily growing as businesses of all sizes realise its numerous cost and productivity benefits. The emergence of COVID-19 and the ongoing disruption to traditional office-orientated business models, however, have driven […]

November 8, 2021

These days, working in IT usually means working in the cloud. While the migration toward cloud computing was already well under way before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, the global pandemic sped up the trend. Widespread lockdowns meant that […]

November 1, 2021

There’s no slowing down in sight for the big three public cloud providers, as they all once again reported growth in the third quarter of calendar 2021. Demand for public cloud services continues to grow, as evidenced by the strong […]

September 1, 2021

We closed the 2020 edition of this article by noting ongoing uncertainty about how the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting economic recession, would play out. At the time (August 2020), vaccines were in development but had not yet been deployed […]

May 10, 2021

During the pandemic, the cloud has emerged as the fastest and most resilient method to keep businesses and communities running. From working and attending school remotely, to shopping online and interacting with our health provider, cloud services have enabled it […]

May 7, 2021

COVID-19 accelerated the drive to enterprise modernization with cloud native. Corporate boards ramped up their digital initiatives, according to Gartner, beefing up online services for consumers and employees. Consultant McKinsey reckons we’ve vaulted years ahead on digital transformation, with one […]

March 30, 2021

Akamai Technologies is launching Akamai Vaccine Edge, a system that will keep online COVID-19 vaccine registration systems running. The company said it has developed Akamai Vaccine Edge for Salesforce’s Vaccine Cloud. As anyone who has registered for a COVID-19 vaccine […]

March 15, 2021

The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights how critical it is to continually seek new approaches to survive, corner competition, and empower business futures ahead of major market disruptions. Given the modern demands of technology to deliver on a wide […]

February 2, 2021

We’ve lived through pandemics before, and the silver lining is that they eventually go away. Remote work was not a reaction to the COVID-19 crisis; it’s been an option for many during the past several years—and one that most people […]

November 12, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating, migration to the cloud is expected to accelerate as enterprises choose to let someone else worry about their server gear. In its global IT outlook for 2021 and beyond, IDC predicts […]

November 11, 2020

In early 2020, many IT departments rushed to handle the major uptick in remote employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the most part, administrators pulled off the impossible and successfully provided the digital resources their employees needed. As the […]

October 26, 2020

SAP announced its Q3 earnings yesterday, with its aggregate results down across the board. And after missing earnings expectations, the company also revised its 2021 outlook down. The combined bad news spooked investors, crashing its shares by over 20% in […]

October 20, 2020

It’s Monday morning standup, and 22 faces spread across your screen on yet another Zoom call. The focus is on the day’s tasks, as well as looking at problems that need solving. Unique to this experience is that just seven […]

October 7, 2020

VUCA. It’s an oft-used phrase that applies now more than ever. Volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous are certainly not overstatements in today’s swiftly changing economy. Yet, despite declines in global IT spending, investment in cloud services is surging, as companies […]

August 27, 2020

When Covid-19 reared its ugly head earlier this year it altered the way millions of corporate workers access enterprise resources. Now that it’s obvious those changes in many cases are going to be more permanent than originally thought, many customers […]

June 18, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread, and users spend more hours working online, it should come as no surprise that malware authors are trying to exploit the pandemic. Weaker controls at home, and more users clicking on COVID-19-themed ransomware “lure” emails […]

June 2, 2020

It’s no secret that the recent COVID-19 pandemic has spurred increased cloud spending, and we’re starting to see the data. Most recent is a survey by Flexera of 750 executives, where more than half (59 percent) said their cloud usage […]

May 19, 2020

Even before COVID-19, education technology experienced high growth, with global edtech investments reaching $18.66 billion in 2019. The overall market for online education is projected to reach $350 billion by 2025. But these numbers are now being “reimagined.” Language apps, […]