Network services can easily manage networks in most industries. That’s important because well-functioning networks are adding tremendous value to organizations. Three technological benefits illustrate this exciting promise—and showcase how network services support them. These benefits also address the top concerns of many organizations—providing a growing remote workforce, leveraging the data they collect, and enhancing network security.
#1: Give remote workers secure resource access
If the network were an orchestra, the performance hall would become crowded—largely due to an increasingly large remote workforce. Experts predict that the remote workforce will continue to grow in 2023—after reaching 25% of all professional jobs in North America by the end of 2022. Employees want the flexibility to work from anywhere, while hybrid work is expanding the attack surface.
As a result, organizations must ensure access to resources and meet increasingly complex regulations. Among the organizations that have transitioned to fully remote or hybrid workforces are government agencies, which must meet some of the most restrictive regulations to protect sensitive data. Remote work requirements now range from traditional office productivity tools to highly complex software and system requirements for applications such as media rendering and CAD.
It is important that remote and hybrid workers have access to the underlying computing resources on which their work relies. For many companies, these are cloud-based virtual machines, such as Azure general purpose VMs or dedicated compute VMs running on NVIDIA GPU. With network services, companies can use secure global connectivity to give remote workforces access to their on-premises and cloud resources from anywhere.
Application delivery services can ensure that those remote workers have the resources they need to complete their tasks, while monitoring services provide IT with a holistic view of what’s going on. network resources and diagnostics, with telemetry data to help people work without interruption. Other technology solutions enable employees, vendors, and partners to access internal and cloud applications.
Equipping remote workers with the right tools—including networking and security tools—will become increasingly important because The number of mobile workers is expected to grow from 78.5 million in 2020 to 93.5 million in 2024, according to an IDC forecast. These network users—sometimes referred to as “deskless workers”—will make up nearly 60% of the U.S. workforce by the end of 2024.
All of those workers need devices to connect. Quantity 5G connectivity is predicted to grow to 1 billion worldwide between 2023 and 2.6 billion by 2025, according to a study by CCS Insight. The demographic trend of “productivity paranoia,” in which workers are eager to demonstrate that they can be productive from anywhere, will also contribute to the creation of new networks and new equipment needed. connected and secure.
