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Pandemic Drives Deployment of Digital Workspaces

According to a new report, Digital Workspace Deployment & Performance Monitoring in the New Normal, 82% of respondents had changes in their digital workspaces due to the pandemic.

A digital workspace is an integrated technology framework that allows employees and remote workers to access their apps and data in real time - on any device, from any location, regardless of whether the information is stored in the cloud or in a data center.

The survey of 1,050 digital workspace professionals from around the world, conducted by eG Innovations and xenappblog, also found the following:

■ Centralized management is the primary reason why organizations are adopting digital workspaces.

■ Cost and security concerns are two of the major reasons why organizations are not actively moving digital desktops to the cloud.

■ More than 50% of digital workspace professionals are spending over a quarter of their work week troubleshooting issues.

■ 16% of respondents deployed digital workspaces for the first time due to the pandemic.

■ 41% of respondents felt that digital workspace technologies have now become more important for their organizations.

■ Network connectivity and bandwidth limitation at the user end was the topmost challenge of organizations supporting remote workers.

"The last year has been pivotal for digital workspace technologies. As organizations suddenly had to support most employees working from home, digital workspace technologies became critical for the business," said Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations.

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Pandemic Drives Deployment of Digital Workspaces

According to a new report, Digital Workspace Deployment & Performance Monitoring in the New Normal, 82% of respondents had changes in their digital workspaces due to the pandemic.

A digital workspace is an integrated technology framework that allows employees and remote workers to access their apps and data in real time - on any device, from any location, regardless of whether the information is stored in the cloud or in a data center.

The survey of 1,050 digital workspace professionals from around the world, conducted by eG Innovations and xenappblog, also found the following:

■ Centralized management is the primary reason why organizations are adopting digital workspaces.

■ Cost and security concerns are two of the major reasons why organizations are not actively moving digital desktops to the cloud.

■ More than 50% of digital workspace professionals are spending over a quarter of their work week troubleshooting issues.

■ 16% of respondents deployed digital workspaces for the first time due to the pandemic.

■ 41% of respondents felt that digital workspace technologies have now become more important for their organizations.

■ Network connectivity and bandwidth limitation at the user end was the topmost challenge of organizations supporting remote workers.

"The last year has been pivotal for digital workspace technologies. As organizations suddenly had to support most employees working from home, digital workspace technologies became critical for the business," said Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations.

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2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

Regardless of OpenShift being a scalable and flexible software, it can be a pain to monitor since complete visibility into the underlying operations is not guaranteed ... To effectively monitor an OpenShift environment, IT administrators should focus on these five key elements and their associated metrics ...

An overwhelming majority of IT leaders (95%) believe the upcoming wave of AI-powered digital transformation is set to be the most impactful and intensive seen thus far, according to The Science of Productivity: AI, Adoption, And Employee Experience, a new report from Nexthink ...

Overall outage frequency and the general level of reported severity continue to decline, according to the Outage Analysis 2025 from Uptime Institute. However, cyber security incidents are on the rise and often have severe, lasting impacts ...

In March, New Relic published the State of Observability for Media and Entertainment Report to share insights, data, and analysis into the adoption and business value of observability across the media and entertainment industry. Here are six key takeaways from the report ...

Regardless of their scale, business decisions often take time, effort, and a lot of back-and-forth discussion to reach any sort of actionable conclusion ... Any means of streamlining this process and getting from complex problems to optimal solutions more efficiently and reliably is key. How can organizations optimize their decision-making to save time and reduce excess effort from those involved? ...

As enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption strategies, CIOs are routinely exceeding their cloud budgets — a concern that's about to face additional pressure from an unexpected direction: uncertainty over semiconductor tariffs. The CIO Cloud Trends Survey & Report from Azul reveals the extent continued cloud investment despite cost overruns, and how organizations are attempting to bring spending under control ...

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According to Auvik's 2025 IT Trends Report, 60% of IT professionals feel at least moderately burned out on the job, with 43% stating that their workload is contributing to work stress. At the same time, many IT professionals are naming AI and machine learning as key areas they'd most like to upskill ...

Businesses that face downtime or outages risk financial and reputational damage, as well as reducing partner, shareholder, and customer trust. One of the major challenges that enterprises face is implementing a robust business continuity plan. What's the solution? The answer may lie in disaster recovery tactics such as truly immutable storage and regular disaster recovery testing ...

IT spending is expected to jump nearly 10% in 2025, and organizations are now facing pressure to manage costs without slowing down critical functions like observability. To meet the challenge, leaders are turning to smarter, more cost effective business strategies. Enter stage right: OpenTelemetry, the missing piece of the puzzle that is no longer just an option but rather a strategic advantage ...