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FEATURE : IS YOUR IT READY ?
Although some of us are returning to the office , Morgan Stanley says 87 % of Australians want to work at home full-time or take on a hybrid approach as we move out of the pandemic .
This shift of preference for hybrid working affects the IT infrastructure of a business . To provide a hybrid workplace that employees can seamlessly adapt , organizations must implement reliable , secure and accessible cloud-based and data-centered solutions that set them up for long-term success .
Interim fixes can ’ t always provide long term solutions As we head into 2022 , organizations need to remember that it ’ s no longer enough to only have technology that helps navigate interim challenges . Rather , they need to have solutions that set them on the path to recovery and future growth through sustained innovation .
It is no surprise that the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that the use of paid cloud computing in business continued to grow in 2019-20 , with over half ( 55 %) of
Nathan Knight , Managing Director – Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo ANZ
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