eWEEK EDITORS

Twitter and Google, a couple of rather influential technology leaders, have made it official: Anybody on their staffs who’d like to work from home permanently can do so—at least through 2021. Is this the path of other businesses in other sectors for the future? What exactly has the COVID-19 pandemic done to our business norms? […]

By Sasha Banks-Louie Jyoti-Fair Works, a small German “fair fashion” label that sources goods ethically from an Indian workforce, is continuing to pay its seamstresses their full wages and guarantee their continued employment despite a COVID-19-related government lockdown. Since all of the seamstresses have sewing machines and embroidery tools in their homes, “We have decided […]

The end-of-life of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 doesn’t have to throw an entire organization into chaos. Companies that have already started planning for the phase-out are probably in a good place right now. However, businesses that haven’t yet developed a plan have a lot to consider before the sun sets on the document management and collaboration […]

Updating and upgrading an IT system (also known as “digital transformation”) is more than just a buzzword and a process. It can open doors to limitless potential by expanding and improving capabilities and advancing all industries. It’s often forward-thinking. However, during this turbulent time, digital transformation is survival. Companies have been forced to quickly scale […]

One aspect of the COVID-19 crisis that’s affecting many industries is the immense strain on IT teams due to increased volume and the resulting problems (e.g., downtime, slow time that impacts customers). Headlines reveal remote work apps failing, government communication channels overwhelmed and entertainment networks buffering.  Recent data from PagerDuty shows that industries under the […]

New data from Synergy Research Group released April 30 shows that global Q1 spend on cloud infrastructure services reached $29 billion, up a whopping 37% from the first quarter of 2019. This was in line with the expected market growth rate and showed no meaningful negative impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, anecdotal evidence […]

For many enterprises, migrating workloads to the public cloud begins and ends with the lift-and-shift process of moving servers, storage and networking hardware from on-premises data centers to an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider. It’s a popular strategy that eliminates capital investment, relieves IT teams of infrastructure oversight and enables pay-as-you-go pricing and dynamic scaling for variable […]

We’ve all heard about so-called “essential businesses” during a crisis, as defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. These verticals are considered essential at this time: medical and health care, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement and public works.  With widespread quarantines as […]

The news always seems dominated by disasters—from the current COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires and flu outbreaks to cyber and ransomware attacks. While these events affect personal lives, the impact on small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) is often forgotten in news reports. Employees are being sheltered in their homes; physical facilities are affected, and a company’s supply chain can be disrupted. These […]

DevOps has been established for a while—about 10 years—but many enterprises are still encountering barriers to implementing it successfully.  For the record, via Webopedia: “DevOps (development and operations) is an enterprise software development phrase used to mean a type of agile relationship between development and IT operations. The goal of DevOps is to change and […]

The COVID-19 outbreak has taken an enormous toll across the world, the effects of which we are yet to comprehend. In addition to the human tragedy unfolding across most regions, societies and economies are struggling to cope with major losses and outages. IT departments around the world are now being called upon to ensure vital […]

As data privacy legislation continues to expand across the globe, enterprise data management is quickly becoming a major headache for enterprise IT decision-makers responsible for compliance with new and existing consumer data privacy regulations, including the GDPR (2018) and the new California Consumer Privacy Act. Senior IT leaders shouldn’t be alarmed, but concern over financial penalties and reputation damage for non-compliance is warranted. […]