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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Hot: AI and VR/AR With digital transformations moving at full throttle, and a desire to stay innovative, it should come as no surprise that use cases for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence continue to grow in several verticals. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6%

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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

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. Architectures and Recent Traffic Growth. Remote Work-Life Balance.

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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.

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Managing an Online Travel Agency: How Back Office System of an OTA Works

Altexsoft

OTA architecture. Unified communication software. Unified communication software is a set of technologies for handling all your customer service and support operations via one platform. This includes calls, instant messaging, desktop sharing, email and SMS all within a unified user experience for agents.

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