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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. 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.

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IT services company Atos finalizes plan for IBM-style split

CIO

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. Its other investments include minority stakes in national postal services, supermarket chains, consumer electronics stores and a French TV network.

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Designing IT Infrastructure for a Distributed Workforce: Insights from a CIO

Tenable

Over the past several weeks, organizations have confronted the challenge of adapting their technical infrastructure to support a newly remote workforce. wide-area network [WAN]) quickly become a bottleneck when large groups (not to mention your entire staff) begin to work remotely. Limit access to virtual private networks.

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

The first generation of SD-WAN products were focused on enabling internet broadband-based connectivity to data centers. At Palo Alto Networks, we are seeing a dramatic shift in mainstream customer requirements. 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. Dave Temkin, VP of Network and Systems Infrastructure at Netflix.

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News in Networking: The Best Network Speeds, Cuba’s DIY Internet, and the Cost of Automation

Kentik

This week Verizon was dubbed the winner of network speeds. Mitel agreed to buy ShoreTel, while Viacom said it wouldn’t buy Scripps Networks. Here are those headlines and more: Verizon Keeps Top Spot as Best-Performing Network (CNET) A new report from RootMetrics ranks Verizon as having the best network speeds.

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Hyper-segmentation – How to Avoid Cyber Disasters

CTOvision

While people often think of security as just the tools used to protect the network, it’s not about that any more. Network Segmentation. The idea is that if someone gains access to your network, segmentation creates a dead end. The attacker can see the segment but not the rest of the network. Segmentation.

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