Forbes March 16, 2020
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) contagion has resulted in a global pandemic with cities in lockdown and national governments being placed in crisis mode. As workers in many industries are now faced with the challenge of working from home, how will our IT frameworks be able to adapt to a ‘new shape of data flows’ being created? Reports already suggest that Microsoft Teams has suffered “messaging-related functionality problems” in Europe as a result of the increased workload carried by the online collaboration application’s backend, so how will the cloud backbone hold up under increased pressure going forward?
Our always-on mobile-centric increasingly cloud-native existence has created a world where access to data services is fundamentally important to keeping business moving. While panic buying...