Navigating the Disruption of Work - The 5 major Accelerations Happening Right Now
One of the many shocking things about a pandemic is how quickly the unimaginable becomes the inevitable.
In less than 72 hours, even the world’s most traditional companies transitioned from office-based to working from home. Everyone could see that the word “work” was about to be redefined.
The transition was head-spinning. In those first hours, days and weeks, companies across every industry stepped through what looked like a playbook (if only a pandemic playbook existed).
They moved, in sequence, from “keeping the lights on” to imagining whole new business models in a high-speed scramble. Businesses re-evaluated their hierarchy of needs, establishing the basics first, much like they were running up Maslow’s psychological needs pyramid
And as they did, the changes were so fundamental to how their teams operated, any notion of reverting back to normal quickly fell away.
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Why engineering teams love Slack (and why yours might love it too): The adaptive collaboration hub for software engineering
Back in 2009, we were a small team of software engineers, building a massive multiplayer game called Glitch.
We started using Internet Relay Chat (remember IRC?) to keep everyone on the same page. As work on the game progressed, we kept wishing our IRC channel could do more than just basic communication. So we found ourselves tweaking it, adding to it and hacking new ways to get things done faster.
Well, the game flopped, so we decided to focus on this new collaboration thing we’d developed.
That was a good call. Because, we ended up w ...
How Slack’s own developers use Slack: Best practice in our engineering teams
You may have heard Slack’s origin story: It began life as an internal tool that helped a games development company collaborate better.
Fast forward to today, and Slack is used by teams all over the world—and all over the enterprise, from marketing and sales to HR to customer support, not to mention engineering teams.
It’s a collaboration hub that brings together people, data and applications. And it’s highly adaptive, flexing to suit the structures and working styles of all kinds of teams. ...
Storage Made Simple For Hybrid Cloud
Having many different storage requirements no longer means you need a complex mix of storage. With the IBM FlashSystem family, you have one platform to address entry, mid-range and high-end needs. FlashSystem all-flash and hybrid-flash arrays are built on a unified set of software, tools and APIs, which extends enterprise functionality throughout the storage estate, simplifies hybrid multi-cloud and is designed for complete peace of mind. It’s not just for big businesses. Use this ebook to learn how IBM FlashSystem helps you protect, manage and ...
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions
The move toward public cloud, heightened concerns over ransomware, and complexities associated with backup and data management are forcing I&O leaders to rearchitect their backup infrastructure and explore alternative solutions. This research provides analyses of backup and recovery vendors.
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ESG: Analyzing Outcomes Delivered by Modern Multicloud Storage Environments Optimized for Next-generation Workloads
Most organizations have too much data, which is growing too quickly and is difficult to consolidate. This prevents them from adequately analyzing their data and capitalizing on its value. A hybrid multi-cloud-enabled storage infrastructure that modernizes traditional workloads and is optimized to run next-generation workloads can help these organizations operate as dynamic ‘data-driven’ enterprises.
Learn how you can harness the power of data and get a competitive advantage from it.
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