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COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated their Digital Transformation journeys , with enterprises having to doubledown on their efforts to cater to a dispersed workforce .
and specifically by greater demands from enterprises extending their digital infrastructure from centralised locations to distributed Edge locations . believe it will continue to be as we recover and rebuild following this terrible pandemic .”
Russell Poole , Managing Director , UK , Equinix , said : “ For several years now , businesses in the UK have been rearchitecting their legacy IT infrastructures and adopting new and agile technologies in order to give them increased flexibility and scalability . The findings of this survey demonstrate the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated their Digital Transformation journeys , with enterprises having to double-down on their efforts to cater to a dispersed workforce . It ’ s clear the pandemic has changed the way we work , across industries , both in the UK and further afield , challenging traditional notions of workplace collaboration .”
Eugene Bergen Henegouwen , President , EMEA , Equinix , said : “ As digital leaders around the world are focused on digitising their organisations to respond to the challenges created by the pandemic , it ’ s clear from this study that interconnection is very important to this transformation . The fact that over half of IT decision-makers in EMEA said interconnection will help them to navigate the challenges faced as a result of COVID-19 , with almost half believing it to be key to their organisation ’ s survival , shows interconnection has become business-critical to many enterprises and we
The independent study , commissioned by Equinix , surveyed 2,600 IT decision-makers in diverse enterprises across the Americas ( Brazil , Canada , Colombia , Mexico , US ), Asia-Pacific ( Australia , China , Hong Kong , Japan , South Korea , Singapore ) and EMEA ( Bulgaria , Finland , France , Germany , Ireland , Italy , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , UAE , UK ). Respondents were selected for participation from Dynata ’ s online panel . The survey was conducted online between December 17 , 2020 and January 8 , 2021 . p
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