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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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RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers

TechCrunch

in the last several years — buffered by innovations like the Jedi project and FirstNet , a next-generation public safety network — things have been shifting. We’re thinking about unified communications.” However, in the U.S. “As we see it, the platform will evolve with customers’ needs.

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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.