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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. On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says.

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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. Dramatically reducing the operating costs of delivering branch services including network, security, visibility, unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and multi-cloud access. Legacy SD-WAN.

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Why Going Cloud Native Is the Right Move in the Recession

d2iq

Government organizations are modernizing to gain operational agility, unify communications, and gain strategic and tactical advantages. This automation streamlines the deployment of cloud-native applications, reducing operational costs, particularly when compared with what are now considered legacy virtualization-based approaches.

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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. The panelists discussed how their organizations run their networks and data centers.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO

They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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

Kentik

Mitel to Buy ShoreTel for $430M to Create Unified Communications Powerhouse (TechCrunch) Telecommunications company and UC provider Mitel is buying competitor ShoreTel. The company announced its expanding into 15 data centers across the globe.

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

Tenable

Thanks to software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors that specialize in things like email and file storage, organizations no longer have to run their operations through bespoke data centers or on-premises file servers. Limit access to virtual private networks. VPNs are another potential bottleneck for distributed workforces.