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4D’s top priority during the coronavirus pandemic has been to keep our data centre staff and clients safe, and we have made several changes to ensure we achieve this.

Covid-19 has shown us what world without loo roll would be like, but an even bigger impact it's had was forcing companies who usually work out of an office to transition to the total use of remote working in a matter of weeks!

As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across Europe, many businesses were forced to adapt to a new way of working very quickly. This complete change to the way people work has been disruptive, and it's completely understandable to be unsure about how to look after your staff.

Remote working before the pandemic was a very different experience to the one we are going through now. Lockdown means we will all be experiencing a greater level of stress and anxiety over the coming weeks and months.

The internet is how we conduct all of our personal and professional business right now, but high-bandwidth connections are expensive – do you really need gigabit internet for your business? What internet speed do you need and how can you get the most for your money?

How we successfully transitioned to 90% remote working within a couple of weeks, and how we are now supporting our staff throughout the lockdown period.

With the Covid-19 pandemic keeping the whole country in lockdown, the internet has become a lot people’s only connection to the outside world, so it’s understandable to worry about whether the internet can cope with this increased demand.

4D has compiled a list of requirements you need to find in a data centre, covering everything you need within the 7 essentials of data centre partners.

Hosting your IT infrastructure within a data centre increases your resilience and protects you from expensive downtime - we've outlined the 7 essentials to consider when choosing the right data centre partner.

Just a few weeks ago, the coronavirus outbreak was happening somewhere else. Now it’s a  health and economic crisis. Thankfully data centres have resilience in place to survive crises like this.