Hybrid working, an increase in cyber-attacks and a focus on sustainability have caused businesses to confront a big decision: transition into a digital-first business or face being left behind by the competition.
My emerging view of the key IT issue businesses are focusing on in 2022, is IT risk. It may be dressed up as something different, but fundamentally it is risk. This is caused by:
Thanks to William Shakespeare for lending us his eternal question to adapt. Unfortunately, when it comes to cloud the answer isn’t quite as binary - so let’s discuss this in a bit more detail over the next few minutes.
Business leaders are overwhelmed. According to Verizon, 66% of leaders suffered from burnout last year. This unfortunately is not surprising. Many leaders are constantly adapting to evolving customer expectations, the pressure to compete in the digital economy, and the variety of protracted risks facing their organisations. Leaders are learning how to empower digital-first organisations and consider the above factors to ensure the business can thrive. These factors are also fuelling the pressure to continuously innovate to stay ahead of the curve, and their competitors.
Many people nowadays have preventative health checks. Increasingly, we screen whole cohorts for disease that, if treated early, reduces the overall impact – breast and bowel cancer being the most well-known. This not only improves the chance of making a full recovery, but also requires less visits to the doctors. Our nations also invest heavily in healthcare for the unwell, but increasingly invest in public health to prevent us getting unwell - the COVID test and vaccination programme being a leading example. So, should we also be making regular health checks on our business?
Dublin, 26th May 2022 – Logicalis, the IT solutions and managed service provider, today announces that it has won the award for Managed Security Service Provider of the Year at the Tech Excellence Awards 2022, which took place at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dublin on the 25th of May.
A lot of us have ended up as hybrid workers, spending some of the working week in the office and the rest of our time split between working from home, a third party’s office or on-the-go. Each day, regardless of where we are, we connect to corporate services to do our jobs. Some of those services will be hosted in data centres, some in clouds and the rest via the internet.
The word ‘work’ has long been synonymous with a location – you ‘go to work’. Now that we’ve adapted to living through the pandemic, ‘work’ simply defines what we do - the place we do it no longer matters. Moving forwards, the benefits to enabling the workforce to work from anywhere, and the flexibility to work-life balance that it allows, can’t be ignored – indeed many believe it will be paramount to attracting and retaining talent.
London, United Kingdom, 28th April 2022 – Logicalis UK & Ireland (UK&I) today announces it has been recognised as one of the 290 UK’s Best Workplaces™ (2022) by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, achieving a ranking of 81 in the medium size category published by Great Place to Work® UK today.
London, United Kingdom – 25th April 2022: Logicalis, a global IT solutions and managed service provider, today announces the launch of Intelligent Connectivity, a solution designed to empower digital-first customers to improve business performance and user experience by operating with connectivity as a managed service.
