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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO

Together, the two projects earned Tractor Supply a 2024 CIO 100 Award for IT leadership and innovation. The tech team is extremely agile.” All Tractor Supply stores already had SD-WAN networks and 5G broadband service available, and security cameras were IP enabled, enabling them to link into the Computer Vision capabilities.

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Prisma SD-WAN Integrates With Google Cloud to Simplify Multicloud

Palo Alto Networks

As a result, traditional wide area network (WAN) architectures have become a major bottleneck as they fail to enable direct access to cloud applications. Multicloud and SD-WAN. With these challenges and requirements in mind, today, I am thrilled to announce the seamless integration of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN with Google Cloud.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

Cloud optimization is the new initiative in 2024,” says Rajeev Nair, general manager of IT infrastructure and security at Cathay, a major airliner and cargo carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, with headquarters in Hong Kong. The cloud has helped us to be more scalable and agile.”

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024.

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Top 10 Worldwide Mobility and Telecommunications 2020 Predictions

IDC

Prediction 2: By 2025, 50% of MNOs with active 5G deployments will leverage network slicing to offer secure and segmented 5G wireless connectivity for enterprise WANs as an attractive alternative to wireline virtual private networks (VPNs).

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Top 10 Worldwide Mobility and Telecommunications 2020 Predictions

IDC

Prediction 2: By 2025, 50% of MNOs with active 5G deployments will leverage network slicing to offer secure and segmented 5G wireless connectivity for enterprise WANs as an attractive alternative to wireline virtual private networks (VPNs).