What is a Proskauer response team?
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What is a work from home plan?
As part of the response to the outbreak of COVID-19, many organizations are working on contingency and business continuity plans that include an all-employee “work-from-home” scenario. If it becomes necessary to implement such a plan, all employees of the organization will access the organization’s networks and systems remotely. Unfortunately, many organizations that are testing these plans are discovering that that their remote access technologies may not be able to handle, without significant degradation in performance, the volume of activity this will generate. Indeed, given the complex host of business applications and collaboration tools that many businesses employ, many entities may not be fully ready for their entire workforce to access their systems remotely without first checking in with their vendors and IT personnel.
Is simultaneous user capacity a function of hardware resources?
Of course, to the extent some of the relevant software is not SaaS or cloud-based, but, rather, is hosted locally on-premises, simultaneous user capacity may be, in part, a function of hardware resources available on site. In this case, additional planning may be necessary, which might include bringing in additional hardware or a SaaS-based resource as an alternative or supplement.