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DELIVERING THE RIGHT IT
SERVICE DURING LOCKDOWN
AND BEYOND, WHILE KEEPING
COST AND RISK TO A MINIMUM
IT departments must implement strategies that are easily
accessible for the whole business, and having the right
technology in place to achieve this is crucial. Jeremy Atkins,
UKI Sales Director – Enterprise & Public Sector at Commvault,
explains why agility and flexibility will be key to success as we
prepare to emerge from the pandemic and retreat back to reality.
In the initial stages of COVID-19 and
lockdown, there was furious activity
to transform the workplace in the
UK – enabling people to work from home,
changing business processes and mobilising
apps and data to work as well at the edge as
in the office. Now that this has been in place
for several weeks and the dust has settled,
there are two key things a senior IT leader
should now be asking themselves:
1. Can I deliver the right service,
securely and efficiently as long as the
lockdown endures?
2. How has this situation impacted the
overall organisation’s mid-long term
strategy and budgets, and do I need to
change my IT strategy to re-align with
the new world?
Of course, like any IT function, there will
have been a whole range of in-flight projects
running when COVID-19 hit. The majority of
them will have been put on hold while it has
been ‘all hands to the pumps’ to get over
the initial changes – now, weeks later, which
projects do you restart?
With many organisations facing reduced
income and no clear notion of when that
revenue might return to ‘normal’, IT budgets
have been hit hard. Furthermore, businesses
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TO DECIDE WHICH
PROJECTS ARE
STILL VIABLE AND
WHICH SHOULD
BE PAUSED
OR SHELVED,
IT IS VITALLY
IMPORTANT FOR
BUSINESSES TO
EVALUATE THEM BY
MEASURING THEIR
IMPACT ACROSS
COST AND RISK.
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