As businesses look forward to a new year and begin planning next year’s IT budget, the impacts of 2020 are likely to focus discussions on the need for more flexible and cost-effective approaches to technology infrastructure. That’s because traditional data center models based on capital-intensive, on-premise computing investments no longer address the new reality of sharply fluctuating economic conditions, reduced IT budgets and a more distributed workforce. ...

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