In times of austerity it is the public sector that feels the impact of initial expectations to save money and become more efficient. Private sector organisations need to be driven by necessity before they act and pursue efficiencies, whereas the decision is made for the public sector at a governmental level and usually at an early stage. As such, public sector organisations like councils often find themselves thrust into the role of pathfinders in order to make efficiencies and cost savings.

IT is an area where many efficiencies and cost sav ...

Local Authorities (LAs) usually consist of geographically dispersed sites across a town or region, where users have independent connections to each site and access to a range of applications (i.e. both local and in the cloud) that require a consistent quality of service in order to connect to resources, share data across the different sites and connect back to the main office buildings. As each of these sites requires substantial bandwidth, traditional SD-WAN simply cannot keep up with expanding cloud-based performance needs across an extended ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, it forced enterprises to redefine how, when, and where work gets done. People moved from offices and field service positions to their homes; even those who had to remain in place found their jobs increasingly automated by both algorithms and robots. This critical moment accelerated the already existing transitions, loosely complied under the term "digital transformation," underway as companies increasingly offered digitally augmented goods and services.

In fact, in IDC'sJanuary 2022 Future Enterprise ...

The pandemic and its accompanying disruptions changed forever how enterprises think about, acquire, and use technology resources in order to meet constantly changing demands. One of these demands, the ability to work in collaborative teams anywhere in the world, dramatically accelerated in the 2020–2021 timeframe. This transition to hybrid work requires changes not just in the underlying technology architecture required to deliver the work experience, but also to the management and very definition of work.

Virtualization of applications and ...

Our daily lives are easier and richer because of modern devices and applications—except when it comes to our work. Even routine work tasks often mean switching between applications, remembering multiple passwords, and searching in multiple places for the right file or data. Add the distraction of app notifications and it’s easy to see how employees lose the productivity and quality experience that helps them work effectively. Until now, technology solutions have focused on the productivity side of this challenge. Just as important is the experi ...