Before Covid-19, 25% connected remotely - about 5,000 to 6,000 users a day.

“We have 47,000 employees - 85% are knowledge workers. “We thought what would we do if there was another bird flu pandemic? We would want to fail over all the data centers into one region,” he said.Ĭovid-19 realized that frightening forecast and PPG was prepared. As Dan Connelly, PPG Industries project manager, explained in a June 16 interview, “18 months ago we looked at different VPN vendors and decided to go with Pulse - finalizing the evaluation in December 2019.” For years, PPG required employees to enable those VPNs through a time-consuming manual process.Ī few years ago PPG decided to make VPN access far quicker - while maintaining the security of its systems.

PPG has long operated with data centers around the world - enabling employees to access them remotely through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). But its IT operations were prepared thanks to its management’s foresight and technology from Pulse and Citrix. A case in point is PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh-based paint maker that experienced a sudden surge in WFH in March. I don’t know but my hunch is that the right answer is somewhere between the second and third. The key question for investors is whether work from home (WFH) is enjoying a short-term surge that will soon dissipate, whether it is here to stay at a high level, or whether it will persist at a lower level for the foreseeable future. Citrix’s non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.73 exceeded its estimates by 57 cents. While Citrix and Microsoft are doing well, they sell many other products.Ĭitrix also was more profitable than expected - earning a non-GAAP operating margin performance of 31.9% - 6.2 percentage points above Morningstar’s model. The beneficiaries of this so-called secure remote access market - expected to reach $7 billion in 2020 growing at 15% to 20% - include CitrixĬTXS Systems, VMWare, and Microsoft. Among the winners are purveyors of technology that enables employees to access corporate systems from home. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty ImagesĬovid-19 has drawn very sharp distinctions between corporate winners and losers. Since then, his organisation has put 42 remote villages online, providing vastly improved communication and education opportunities. Mahabir Pun began providing Internet access to rural Nepal in 2002, using home made computers assembled in wooden boxes. shows Amar Pun, 63, surfing the web in the village of Nagi, some 200 kms west of Kathmandu. TO GO WITH Lifestyle-IT-Nepal-poverty,FEATURE by Claire CozensThis photo taken on Octo.

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