The impact of remote work on all areas of IT has been enormous, but perhaps most acutely in the area of backup and data protection, forcing organizations to rethink their strategies.
From a business continuity perspective, an organization with a highly distributed workforce can be more resilient than one where most employees work in an office. The obvious difference is that there is no need to deal with physical disaster recovery (DR) planning, such as moving to emergency office space. As long as applications in data centers or the cloud remain available, work continues.
But moving work off-premises requires changes to backup and recovery. Are backup systems set up to work on remote devices? And do employees have enough bandwidth to handle them?
many organizations found their virtual afghanistan whatsapp data networks (VPNs) lacked capacity and had to invest in increasing it, while supporting technologies like backups were short-sightedly considered less important than production applications.
“For remote workers, their home suddenly became an office. They may not even have a desk for their laptop. This has had a domino effect with implications for networks, security and data protection,” says Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst at ESG.
Some organisations have chosen to rely on on-premises backup solutions – USB sticks, hard drives or even online storage purchased by employees themselves – but Covid-19 has accelerated existing trends towards cloud backup and the use of online office suites and software as a service (SaaS), he said.
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