When the pandemic started, physical offices closed almost overnight and forced IT infrastructure to move to the edge. Now, not everyone is going back to the office. According to the Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 64% of IT leaders today are planning for long-term changes to where and how people work.
At the same time as workers were moving to home offices, businesses were experiencing another repercussion of the pandemic — disrupted supply chains. Most businesses can’t afford to wait the six to nine months it now takes to get physical equipment like chips. In this context, it’s…The post Virtual Networks Keep You Agile in a Rapidly Changing Environment appeared first on Interconnections - The Equinix Blog.