With the past year defined by remote workforces, virtual collaboration, and unprecedented change, it’s not surprising that more companies are finally making the move to public clouds to improve efficiencies and accelerate digital transformation.

Despite dozens of very high-profile outbreaks, organizations across the globe have continued to fall victim to ransomware.

Data center vendor competition is heating up, creating an unprecedented level of choice for colocation buyers.

When asked about their most recent significant outage, over half of the respondents to Uptime Institute’s 2020 Global Survey of Data Center and IT Managers who reported an outage in the past three years estimated its cost at more than $100,000 (of which almost a third reported costs of $1 million or above).

McMaster approved the use of $6 million out of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund — part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 — to provide underserved communities with additional resources, including technology and educational programing, to help those whose education or economic situation has been disrupted by COVID-19.

Despite the disruptive challenges of 2020, the survey reveals that IT teams have adapted to managing end-user experiences in today’s work-from-home paradigm.

Accommodating remote workers and customers, making facilities safer and more efficient, and driving higher performance will be the hallmarks of data center trends.

The surge in the use of mobile phones and the rise of the e-commerce market, especially amid the coronavirus pandemic, led to the rapid adoption of digital payments worldwide.

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As organizations around the world move to the cloud, network perimeters continue to disappear, and more attack surfaces are exposed. Supply chains across all industries become more vulnerable to cybercriminals and nation-state hackers and, therefore, more easily infected.