{"id":41093,"date":"2020-08-12T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=41093"},"modified":"2020-08-12T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:31:00","slug":"how-covid-19-made-the-network-a-strategic-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/12\/how-covid-19-made-the-network-a-strategic-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Made the Network a Strategic Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Winston Thomas &#8211; It is no longer an <strong>infrastructure<\/strong> issue; businesses looking to become more agile and flexible to changing market demands see <strong>network<\/strong>s as a Board-level concern \u2014 when businesses have no offline channels to fall back to during the lockdown measures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2017\/04\/23\/19\/30\/earth-2254769__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"379\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand the role of <strong>network<\/strong> optimization and how recent trends are changing business perception, CDOTrends in partnership with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatacommunications.com\/\">Tata Communications<\/a>&nbsp;organized a dialogue session with key industry players.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan Bieler, principal analyst at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.forrester.com\/\">Forrester Research<\/a>&nbsp;and Song Bac Toh, vice president of Global <strong>Network <\/strong>Services at Tata Communications led the conversation. There were quite a few interesting industry folks who joined in the discussion across sectors some of whom were:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/www.cdotrends.com\/story\/14986\/how-covid-19-made-network-strategic-imperative&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoSNTcwNDgwNjMyNzcwMTIyNzU0MhoyYzJlYTI4Y2Q5OTE5ZmFlOmNvbTplbjpVUw&amp;usg=AFQjCNG22GeVtxQs_0vwRkEwLaqm2rLG2A\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Winston Thomas &#8211; It is no longer an infrastructure issue; businesses looking to become more agile and flexible to changing market demands see networks as a Board-level concern \u2014 when businesses have no offline channels to fall back to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/12\/how-covid-19-made-the-network-a-strategic-imperative\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[156,209],"class_list":["post-41093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-networking","tag-infrastructure","tag-networking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}