CIO OPINION
Businesses must invest in network performance management ( NPM ) solutions that collect and analyse data flowing through every application from each device in use .
Elie Dib , Senior Vice President , EMEA at
Riverbed Technology
2021 : The year of visibility , performance and infrastructure everywhere
CIOs and their IT teams must adopt solutions that give a holistic overview of the network if they are to succeed in developing an infrastructure that supports working from anywhere . Elie Dib , Senior Vice President , EMEA at Riverbed Technology , says 2021 must be the year of establishing infrastructure everywhere and CIOs and their teams need to embrace this and ensure they have the best technology solutions to support it .
The office life employees once knew is a thing of the past . Whether indefinite remote working or widening the options for employees to work flexibly . It is safe to say the routine of daily commutes and 9 – 5 , five days a week office environment is unlikely to return in 2021 .
In fact , some businesses such as Nationwide in the UK have already started rolling out permanent ‘ work from anywhere ’ initiatives .
With this in mind , it is unsurprising that recent research from Riverbed found that businesses are expecting a 50 % increase in employees working remotely post- COVID-19 . This shift brings increasing pressure for
CIOs to establish a consistent infrastructure that can support employees working everywhere and anywhere .
The key to ensuring an ‘ infrastructure everywhere ’ setup flourishes is gaining strong visibility over the network and optimising performance of applications that businesses have come to rely on over the last 12 months – regardless of which location employees are working from .
So , to really understand the importance of establishing an ‘ infrastructure everywhere ’ setup , we need to look back at how the work lives of employees have changed and the challenges that we have had to overcome .
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