How to Prepare Your IT-Team for A Second COVID-19 wave?

How to Prepare Your IT-Team for A Second COVID-19 wave?

Last Updated on November 5, 2020 by Sammen Qureshi

Even though we are still on the tail end of the first wave of COVID-19, health experts warn that once the weather cools in the fall, a second wave of cases is likely to arrive. Now is the right time for IT leaders to prepare their organizations for a possible second wave this winter. 

Update your business continuity plan

A business continuity plan ensures your business can continue with minimal interruption. Take the time to review your current business continuity plan. There are lessons to be learned from your response to the first wave. Talk to employees, partners, and suppliers to find out what worked and what needs improvement.

Rethink your digitization strategy

If there were any doubts about the necessity of digital transformation to business longevity, the coronavirus has silenced them. We are more reliant on online services to work to protect its workforce and minimize the threat of the virus. Data is critical to day-to-day workflows, collaboration, innovation, and customer service. Almost all businesses today depend on their data to manage their operation. 

Ensuring business continuity is one of the highest priorities for every company. Businesses must rethink their digitization strategy and put measures in place that establish sustainability for future challenges to come.

How will you get access to your servers?

Most businesses are desperately determining how to use technology to face the increasingly severe disruption caused by COVID-19. The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the importance of data centers and what they do. Unlike your office server room, data centers deal with risk assessment and management every day and play a crucial role as the central point of access for data and essential business applications. Moving a business’s mission-critical data, IT resources or backup systems to a colocation data center is an attractive option for any business worried about business continuity if they are not able to access their server

When you need people on-site, local support is not only convenient but crucial. Most colocation data centers provide remote hands support. Remote hands is a professional technical assistance service performed by data center support technicians. Support technicians respond to emergencies 24/7/365 – ensuring your service requests are just a phone call or click away. The availability of remote hands at your data center offers you a helping hand when you need it, eliminating the need to be onsite and keeping you and your employees safe.

Prepare for the ‘new normal
Some of the changes you roll out now may become part of the ‘new normal,’ A second wave isn’t inevitable, but it is likely. Getting your IT team prepared can help you better weather the storm.

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