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Time to digitize all landlines, once and for all (of us)

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Digital transformation of copper lines – like most IT infrastructure – is better for telecommunications carriers/network providers and businesses alike, as copper networks are expensive to maintain and unreliable with gradual deterioration accelerating over the past decade. Neglecting it by not moving forward imperials us all.

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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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Tech and tech-adjacent expenditures, including categories like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), cloud and data services, billing, software, network storage, business process outsourcing, telecommunications services, and data center technology, represent significant expenses.

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Navigating the future: the rise of SD-WAN in India

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In the realm of Wide Area Networks (WANs), traditional routers have long been the backbone of network infrastructure, albeit with their limitations. However, a transformative technology known as Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is making significant waves in India and globally.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

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Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career. I was in transition twice and wasn’t ready to handle the networking, persistence, and stress that comes with finding a new opportunity. Networking is a lifelong endeavor.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

Despite these challenges, having an up-to-date disaster recovery plan that works and guaranteeing a robust network, security, and systems support framework for new business directions are foundational elements of IT that can’t be ignored — and should be funded. The average cost of a data breach is $4.64

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SASE success: Avoid confusion and embrace a single-vendor solution

CIO

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). What is SASE?

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Is it SaaS, IaaS, or NaaS?

CIO

Let’s look at 3 prime examples: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) SaaS is defined as any software application delivered and accessed via the cloud in a subscription-based offering. NaaS is different from SaaS and IaaS because it relates only to networking functionality, (i.e.,