Welcome to our April eNewsletter, which is being produced as parts of the UK begin to awake from slumber and begin life anew - I'm not talking poetically about Spring (though daffodils and lambs do seem to be everywhere I look lately!), rather the long-awaited reopening of various businesses that had been forced to close their doors due to the pandemic.

As shops, beauty salons and gyms dust off their cash registers there is a feeling of optimism that commerce, having hibernated for over a year, is ready to start returning to its routines of old and hopefully give a kickstart to the whole economy not just here but around the globe.

We've all seen how the world has changed since Covid-19 first impacted us, and it will be interesting now to watch what aspects of 'lockdown life' might persist as things begin to return to normality. Already there are debates about whether large employers will be able to bring workers back to a 9-5 office environment - or whether they will even want to. It seems fairly certain that remote work has had a huge boost growth that is unlikely to simply recede, now that it has been proven that home-based staff can be just as productive as workplace-based ones - if not more so in many cases. What the impact of that shift might be on cloud, on data management, and therefore on the storage sector, remains to be seen.

David Tyler, Editor
Storage magazine

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