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Impact of COVID-19 on Business IT Infrastructure
Businesses are not ready
Companies are dealing with different numbers of employee and many of them exceed 500 employees. This simply means that they have dozens of VPN connections, based on an entry-level product from a major brand. This leads to a service disruption multiple times until the IT department moves and quickly fixed the problem.
Business are still discovering videoconferencing
It’s the first time for many businesses to be using such platforms for meetings and conferences. Employees have previously used smartphones, and other devices for skype, Face time, and other video calling tools but concepts such as video conferencing is still new.
Document collaboration
Applications such as Google Docs were launched several years ago, but there was still very limited exposure to them. However, the businesses using these platforms are still discovering useful tools for improving their productivity. Previously, the only online medium to share documents was via email.
Obsession with printing
Many businesses still use hardcopies of documents to discuss them, making and replicating notes, and lastly making modifications in the original files. However, none of it is happening now. Employees are switching to softcopies for everything.
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