As we start to come out of lockdown, the focus needs to shift. But how?  

How can a business square the circle of limited budget and the need to deliver more digital change to drive efficiencies and increase long-term chances of survival?  

When does just surviving and keeping the lights on need to switch up to something more proactive and future-proof?

Listen to our podcast to understand how CIOs and other C-suite leaders should decide where to place their bets to maximise IT budgets and to make the most of what they already have.

In conversation with:
Martin Hess, CANCOM Managing Director
Mark Skelton, CANCOM Chief Technology Officer

*Recorded prior to Telefónica Tech acquisition in July 2021

Ep1: Emerging from lockdown: what does digital transformation look like now?

The COVID19 pandemic has forced most of the world into lockdown. Organisations that had never considered remote work have suddenly had to provision entire workforces with the technology and tools they need to operate from home on short notice. Organisations have deployed remote working and virtual desktop environments at speed. A consequence of this crisis response is security levels have been relaxed to enable getting people up and running quickly.

A survey by CSO Online found that just months ago, 17% of employees worked from home at least 60% of the time. As of March 23rd, that number had climbed to 78%. Nearly a quarter of companies have purchased new security solutions or services to adapt to the new way of working.
While most respondents in the survey expressed confidence that their existing security infrastructure could handle their employees working from home, they were also more concerned about security risks targeting WFH employees today than they were three months ago, and a quarter of organizations said they have seen an increase in the volume, severity, and/or scope of cyberattacks since the start of the pandemic.

While most organisations might have at least partially adapted to this ‘new normal’ by now. And as they move beyond crisis management they are now beginning to take stock. Are all the tools they bought to enable remote work secure? What new and unfamiliar devices are now connecting to the corporate network, and are they secure? And how do they know that staff are continuing to follow policy while at home?

And even if the lockdowns across the world end sooner rather than later, there will be long term affects on how businesses operate and secure their staff and systems.

The purpose of this podcast:

Thought leadership podcast on how organisations have reacted to the COVID19 pandemic, what the new normal of working remotely at scale (and securely) looks like, the longer-term effects organisations might see, and how they can continue to adapt securely.

*Recorded prior to Telefónica Tech acquisition in July 2021

Sponsored: Securing The New Normal Of Remote Working with CIO UK & HPE

With the peak of the pandemic now over, organisations are returning to doing business in the new normal, post the Covid lockdown. They still face an environment of constant change, with some industries fighting for survival. But many companies are now better placed to keep going and are looking again for growth opportunities.

So, how do you deal with the gradual return to normal? Successfully navigating the React and Resolve phases will have helped, because it involved problem-solving, getting people working from home, and scaling IT infrastructures to support high levels of demand, with improved levels of security.

But what happens when we return to normal, and what does the new normal look like in terms of people, processes and technology? Working patterns, ways of working and collaborating, and customer behaviours are all different now, and we are seeing significant, and possibly lasting impact and change in our industries as a result of the pandemic.

Technology is a large part of the answer, particularly data-centric, cloud-enabled datacentre infrastructure, as well as AI, analytics and edge competing. And, as part of their reaction to COVID, businesses invested massively in process and technology transformation. Understandably then, as they enter a stage of reflection, they will be keen to determine which elements of the transformation are worth building on and avoid reverting back to where they were before.

With this in mind, is it possible to predict which technologies and strategies will help the IT organisation to enable the business to thrive in the new normal? And how can they use this next period as a time to create further modernisation, efficiency, and competitive advantage?

The purpose of this podcast:

Thought leadership podcast on how organisations can make a successful return to ‘the new normal’ of working remotely at scale and improving online customer services; build on Covid-related IT investments and processes, and benefit from emerging technologies.

*Recorded prior to Telefónica Tech acquisition in July 2021

Ep2: N365 Explained - Microsoft 365 for the NHS

To weather the storm of Covid-19 organisations had to rapidly roll out new technologies.  But how do you keep your transformation on track to stay competitive when faced with a recessionary environment?

Listen to our podcast to understand how an as-a-service model can help with meeting the changing needs of business.  We discuss:

1. What we’ve learned from Covid-19 lock down and how different companies responded to the crisis
2. What companies need to be doing now to become future fit
3. Looking to the future, what does it hold for IT in the cloud?  Will we ever become 100% cloud based, or is it even desirable?

Join:
Reuben Melville, HPE WW GreenLake Channel Category Manager
Ian Anderson, Telefónica Tech UK&I Head of New Business  Sales

*Recorded prior to Telefónica Tech acquisition in July 2021

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