Some Insights of creating
an ideal remote working environment
1.The
cyber security threats to businesses since shifting to remote working during
the pandemic.
2.The
ideal remote working environment combines on-premise server with built-in
remote access applications
3.The
cost benefit that businesses may concern
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Remote Work: Is your business’s
IT environment ready for the challenges confronting the new normal?
Panicked responses to the
infamous COVID-19 have triggered strange, India has suffered more than 180 days
of lockdown, yet substantial adaptation in remote collaboration innovations
became an essential in work places for India organizations. However, the transition
might not be easy, according to a survey by Barracuda Networks, nearly 66% of
Indian organizations have had at least one data breach or cybersecurity
incident since shifting to remote working during the pandemic, while 70% are
concerned about unknown threats that will cause business disruption in the next
six months. Further, it was found that 53% of India organizations do not have
an updated cybersecurity strategy and also lack solutions to address
vulnerabilities that have been exposed due to the shift.
What will be an ideal remote
working environment?
In hindsight, businesses have
been heavily deploying tools such as Microsoft Team, Zoom, Slack, and other
remote team collaboration tools for employees to leverage during this difficult
time. However, the more concurrent users working online simultaneously, the
heavier the resources and loading these service providers have to allocate.
Consequently, we have to ask ourselves again, does a good remote and team
collaboration environment only constitutes of the applications mentioned above,
or there should be more to it? The answer should be more complex than a yes or
no.
An ideal remote working
environment is more than just utilizing collaboration tools provided online.
The entire IT infrastructure, including networking and storage systems, needs
serious reforms in order for businesses to ensure they have the capacity to
host multiple users simultaneously, and to provide a stable and secure workflow
for employees to operate remotely. Traditionally, companies leverage
traditional file server such as Windows file server to store and sync company
data, unless employees access the file servers using VPN, this framework
conventionally was designed only for delivering services within the company’s
network. Thus, that is why so many companies utilizes the hybrid cloud
infrastructure such as the most common combination of Windows server and public
clouds drives. Of course, this common practice often is being viewed as overly
complicated, not to mention the added data breach risk in terms of unstructured
and duplicated data, and resource allocation when adapting third party team
collaboration tools. Thus, having a sophisticated on-premise server with
built-in remote access may definitely help with eliminating issues with remote
team collaboration, unstructured data, and various security issues.
The cost benefit that businesses
may concern
With the recent rising demand in
not just corporate remote collaboration mechanism but also stable and secure IT
environment, a network attached storage (NAS) may just be the solution for
businesses struggling with the problems mentioned above. Solution such as Synology
NAS offers built-in collaboration tool that allows employees to
edit files concurrently, and instant messaging app for team communication.
Additionally, such solution
resonates the benefits of both Windows server and Google Drive, which allow
files to be retrieved via mapped network drive, sync client, web portal or
mobile app, all without the hassle of using VPN services.
Last but not least, what may
come as a surprise is the cost benefit that businesses may experience. The
accumulative expenses contribute by the Windows server Client Access Licenses
(CAL), public cloud storage license, and SaaS licenses could be massive,
alternative deploying solutions like Synology Drive may
save your company’s limited budget drastically when most features mentioned are
completely license free.
With a solution that meets all
of the criteria for working remotely, SMBs and enterprises may still operate
normally even during a difficult time with so many employees work from home
protocol without blowing up the budget out of proportion With COVID-19 stirring
up so much uncertainty globally, the primary task a company should prioritize
is to provide its employees a complete and consistent team collaboration
infrastructure to not only ensures the continuation of the business, but also
safeguards employees’ and their families’ wellbeing.
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