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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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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

At Palo Alto Networks, we are seeing a dramatic shift in mainstream customer requirements. Dramatically reducing the operating costs of delivering branch services including network, security, visibility, unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and multi-cloud access. The Big Shift. The Best Benefit?

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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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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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PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS: Making the Right Choice for Your Oracle Cloud Migration

Datavail

The term XaaS (“anything as a service”) is shorthand for the proliferation of cloud services in recent years—everything from databases and artificial intelligence to unified communications and disaster recovery is now available from your choice of cloud provider. compute, network, storage, etc.)

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

TechCrunch

I’m going to be returning full-time to my regular job editing Extra Crunch and stuff in the back offices here at TechCrunch virtual HQ. Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. You’re in good hands.

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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I’ve omitted obvious items like BYOD and Big Data platforms like Hadoop, since virtually all organizations have these on their lists already. For example, I pick out key planks of new approaches, such as Social CRM and employee social networks, instead of the entire view of social business. Employee social network.