One of the truisms in information technology is that everything old is new
again - well, except maybe for punched cards. We went from big corporate data
centers to regional/division corporate data centers back to big corporate
data centers and now to even bigger cloud data centers. We have gone from
dumb terminals were everything was done on the mainframe, to PCs, and now to
virtualized desktops - where everything is run on the central servers. And
now, we are back to talking about the IT advantages of telecommuting.
Telecommuting is certainly nothing new. But what is changing is how people
are telecommuting and the IT processes and procedures that support them. Gone
are the days of modem banks and analog days. Gone are the days when IT
departments handed out PCs so people could work from home. And gone are the
days when connecting remote employees meant connecting t... (more)