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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Now, as more faculty, staff, and students are accessing information on-premises and in the cloud, IT has a borderless network and the team is implementing a zero-trust network architecture, says CIO Mugunth Vaithylingam. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6%

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

TechCrunch

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. We’re thinking about unified communications.” The Nimbus CAD then helps figure out who to call out and routing for response. .

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

Dramatically reducing the operating costs of delivering branch services including network, security, visibility, unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and multi-cloud access. They were designed with a packet-based architecture for data center application delivery, not for cloud and SaaS.

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How Leading Companies Support Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

Architectures and Recent Traffic Growth. Bill said they are also seeing a lot more connections and peering in their facilities to make the traffic flow more smoothly for collaboration and unified communications along with moves towards VPN services. Bill Long, SVP of Core Product Management at Equinix. Remote Work-Life Balance.

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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.

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Bringing Your Employees Together Under a Shared Customer Experience Ownership Model

CIO

Create a conversational workspace Workstream Collaboration is a cloud-based application that converges siloed unified communications (UC) and contact center technology into one tool with one single application.

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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

CIO

This is a giant leap forward from the old monolithic approach to business communications. With a single cloud-based architecture, businesses can quickly pivot to meet customer and employee needs and deliver personalized experiences that target very specific, granular use cases. . Faster time to value.