CIO OPINION
2021 must be the year of establishing infrastructure everywhere – underpinned by the correct network visibility and application performance tools that will maintain employee experience .
Gaining visibility and addressing performance issues is key to success
While employees become accustomed to being able to work from anywhere – whether it be in a café , at the office , at home or while they ’ re waiting for the car to be fixed – it is vital that CIOs and their IT teams have the right visibility and performance solutions in place . It is simply not an option for there to be SaaS applications and collaboration tools that are slow , inefficient or temperamental as this could lead to considerable impact on employee productivity and business growth . CIOs and the IT teams need to adopt solutions that give a holistic overview of the network if they are to succeed in developing an infrastructure that supports working from everywhere .
To achieve this , businesses must invest in network performance management ( NPM ) solutions that collect and analyse data flowing through every application from each device in use . Armed with these insights , IT teams can quickly identify what problems are occurring and take the necessary steps to resolve them , regardless of where employees are working from . For example , application acceleration tools can be installed to manage both bandwidth and latency fuelled network problems caused by bandwidthhungry applications such as video conferencing . In using complementary application acceleration and network performance management solutions , IT teams are able to optimise the performance of the network , prevent any negative impact from slowrunning systems and enable employees to effectively and productively work from anywhere .
Optimising infrastructure everywhere
As the vaccine continues to rollout and it remains hopeful lockdowns will ease during the year , it is clear the days of spending our entire working week in an office environment are gone .
As such , 2021 must be the year of establishing infrastructure everywhere – underpinned by the correct network visibility and application performance tools that will maintain employee experience . By adopting the right solutions , businesses can operate with the assurance that employees can remain productive and continue to drive innovation for the wider business , irrespective of whatever location they are working from , this year and beyond . p
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