For many school districts, remote learning has come as a complete shock to the system. For us, Kankakee School District, we weren’t completely ready, but we weren’t blindsided, either. That’s because two years ago, our district set a mission of creating anywhere, anytime learning. We wanted to reach all students — not just those who […]
As COVID-19 struck suddenly across the globe last year, work-from-home became a new norm for almost every organization. Likewise, cybersecurity operations also faced tremendous new challenges. Now that businesses are slowly transitioning back to on-premises job models, a considerable percentage of employees is still expected to work from home on a rolling basis to maintain […]
Much has changed in the past year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. AV/IT managers, systems integrators, and facilities managers alike face a heavy set of expectations as they navigate new opportunities and challenges in supporting the return to normal across enterprise, higher education, retail, healthcare, and other industries. Typical building operations that managers […]
Recently, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, said “cloud computing has been at the forefront of human resilience against the pandemic.” Indeed, Microsoft’s productivity cloud, Microsoft 365, has helped more than 258 million users across a range of industries build resilience, ensure productivity, reimagine work and tackle unique challenges posed by the pandemic with confidence. Apart from […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly elevated the adoption of digitalization and accelerated cloud migration in practically all industries. According to the Gartner 2020 Digital Workplace Survey, 68% of respondents said that CXOs across verticals have shown increased involvement in adopting digital workplaces since the pandemic outbreak. Another fundamental shift driven by this pandemic is the […]
Video conferencing and virtual collaboration was a business standard going into 2020, but nobody could have envisioned just how impactful and necessary it would become as millions of employees were suddenly forced to work from home for the first time. While work laptops or personal PCs have provided the basic equipment required to video conference, […]
Across many enterprises, CIOs were already pressured to deploy new tools to accomplish mission-critical work faster and more securely than ever before. There is a new sense of urgency to meet those goals due to the massive workflow challenges created by COVID-19, while still laying the foundation for continued success in the long term and […]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what can be said of the impact that video is having on business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) communications? It must be quite something because video has been the fastest growing category of traffic on the internet for many years now. The consensus among analysts is that business […]
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting at the HETMA Spring 2021 Virtual Conference “The Hybrid Life.” If attendees to the breakout session left with just one takeaway, it was this – when thinking about learning technology and how best to implement it in a higher education environment, the question that needs to be […]
In the United States, the prevailing broadband model dictates that internet service providers (ISPs) enjoy exclusive ownership of the networks they operate. Over time, this has led to the creation of monopolies, with high prices and notoriously poor customer service. This approach has also exacerbated the country’s staggering digital divide. Fast and reliable internet connectivity […]
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