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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

For example, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which has a network of hospitals and about 2,600 beds, is deploying over 150 AI and VR/AR projects this year across all clinical specialties. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers

TechCrunch

in the last several years — buffered by innovations like the Jedi project and FirstNet , a next-generation public safety network — things have been shifting. Longer term, the plan will be to leverage cloud architecture to bring in new data sources and ways of communicating between callers, centers and emergency care providers.

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

At Palo Alto Networks, we are seeing a dramatic shift in mainstream customer requirements. Dramatically reducing the operating costs of delivering branch services including network, security, visibility, unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and multi-cloud access. The Big Shift. The Best Benefit?

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How Leading Companies Support Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

This week, Kentik hosted a virtual panel with network leaders from Dropbox, Equinix, Netflix and Zoom to discuss how they are scaling their infrastructure and services to accommodate the unprecedented growth in network traffic during COVID-19. Dave Temkin, VP of Network and Systems Infrastructure at Netflix.

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How Digital Collaboration is Fragmenting, and Why It’s a Major Opportunity

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

All of these in turn compete with the officially sanctioned collaboration applications already in the workplace currently, from e-mail and SharePoint to whatever enterprise social network and unified communications platforms have been selected under the CIO’s purview. Related: A CIO’s Guide to the Future of Work.

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Well, it's complicated: Skype for Business challenges

Loom Systems

However, the huge advantage and potential of widespread communications, especially spanning globally, is also its biggest challenge: complication. Connecting multiple end points requires an effective and robust infrastructure, which can encompass many forms of communication. Here're three reasons why: 1. Complexity.

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Cybersecurity for Energy and Utility Operations

Getronics

Secure remote access – secure connections to the enterprise network by any device, at any time or location. Apple/IOS security protector – advanced protection for IOS devices over wired, wireless and cellular networks. Secure internet gateway – blocking malicious destinations before connections are established. Antivirus up to date?

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