November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
43 pages
59m
English
Content preview from IT Necessities for a Distributed World
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Introduction
Where were you when the world went remote?
Most people in the working world remember this moment vividly. The rush to shift into remote work mode was almost universally chaotic in the spring of 2020—and for those of us in IT, we faced an extra set of challenges: how can you reconfigure your entire IT infrastructure environment to support a decentralized workforce?
Got the answer? Great. You have eight hours to make it work.
That’s how it went for many businesses that had to throw together a short-term remote solution without the luxury of allowing for extended downtime to make it happen.
Others were too limited in resources, expertise, and existing processes to make the immediate switch, and they remained on premises. Many of these businesses experienced significant hardship as a result of their inability to go remote.
The resulting business landscape now includes many businesses operating on hastily thrown-together infrastructures and others still working to move to a remote model. And while many of us thought that remote work was a temporary solution to an immediate problem that would soon blow over, the severity of the pandemic and benefits of remote work have caused the distributed workforce to form more permanent roots.
Now, distributed environments are firmly embedded within the modern business world, establishing a foundation for flexible, scalable businesses and happy and productive employees. In fact, hybrid and remote models are no longer a nice-to-have ...
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