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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

Grant Thornton’s partnership with Microsoft began when the firm scuttled its Mitel VoIP phone systems in favor of Skype for Business in 2016, just as Swift took over as CIO. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”. Navigating the pandemic. It worked like magic.

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Busting 4 common SD-WAN misconceptions

CIO

Legacy network shortcomings led to the rapid growth of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). It eliminates the need for backhauling—routing remote traffic through the data center before accessing the internet—enabling direct access to critical cloud services. This reduces latency.

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How Machine Learning Will Influence SD-WAN

Altexsoft

Additionally, we’ll look at how artificial intelligence is itself becoming embedded in SD-WAN solutions as industry leaders and government-backed researchers look to further refine important large-scale IT networks. What is SD-WAN technology. The key advantage of SD-WAN is the separation between the routing plane and the control plane.