Tag: COVID-19

How to Get the Supply Chain Back to (Better than) Normal
If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, today’s supply chain is in dire straits. A recent infographic from The New York Times shows all too clearly that the ...

The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Lasting Impact on Tech
The COVID-19 pandemic created major opportunities for innovation and ushered in new technology solutions, but even as the danger subsides, this tech may still serve a purpose. Whether it be face mask ...

Essential Ingredients For a Remote DevOps Team
Enterprise business processes are run on evolving applications, and the DevOps team needs to be as efficient as the applications they create. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on ...

Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office ...

IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...

IT Ops Trends: Cloud, Containers and COVID
Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT ...

The Next Phase of Pandemic Tech Transformation
Last spring, we were inundated with headlines, tweets and Medium posts applauding the rapid digital transformation that businesses were going through—almost overnight—due to the pandemic and the shift to remote work. It ...

EP 14: What Have We Learned?
The past year-plus has brought disruption and opportunity to businesses and software teams all over the world. Change is inevitable, but 2020 was a year of massive change: businesses pivoted, supply chains ...

Why AIOps Is Critical for Pandemic Business Recovery
As businesses worked to stay afloat over the last year, innovation in many areas fell behind. Business leaders struggled to understand the short-term and long-term impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on ...

How the Pandemic Renewed Respect for the Agile Mindset
Agile methodologies were introduced to us around 10 years ago. In that time, we have seen technology advance at breakneck speed and faced many new challenges in the way we work; arguably, ...

Ambassador Insights: Enterprise Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has been on the minds of many organizations for a few years now, but since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year the need to transform IT infrastructures has ...

Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends
Growth continued this year as even the COVID pandemic could not slow down the cloud The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth ...