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Showing posts with label Corona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corona. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Working in the Days of Corona

During these horrible days of Pandemics, most of us are forced to work on remote in order to keep away from COVID-19. This has led to increasing of Cloud spending as you can call it that there is a silver line in every dark cloud. 

A survey done by Flexera with 404 respondents in Europe and the USA shows that 49% of companies expect to increase information technology spending in 2021 with another 19% maintaining current levels.


No questions there that most organizations are impacted by the Work From Home

Further, this report shows that 54 % of organizations are planning to increase investments in work-from-home technologies. The figure also shows that 42 % of respondents are more willing to move to the cloud. 

 

To align with work from home, organizations will invest heavily on Remote workers as well. 


This survey discloses that there will be significant changes in IT spending across multiple technologies. Not surprisingly, spending on on-premises software, servers and data centres is dropping substantially while spending on SaaS and public cloud are increasing.

In 2021, what would be the challenging factors for IT? The major challenge is the Data Quality where 81% agreed. 

If you want to read the entire report, please proceed toinfo.flexera.com/

Friday, January 8, 2021

Technology Predictions for 2021

We are into the year 2021 after spending the year 2020 almost entirely at home. What will be technical predictions this year?   

IEEE Computer Society has identified the predictions for the year 2021 as shown in the following figure. 


You will see that even technology predictions cannot live without ongoing Pandemics. Remote Workforce, Social distancing and virtual musical rehearsal are the topics that have emerged due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation.
Fake-news detection and the Election security / Social media controls have emerged from the current USA 2020 presidential elections and after incidents. 
Let us look at the impact and the likelihood of every option. 

Still the pandemic related topics are in the High Impact and High Likelihood quadrant with higher confidence.