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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. Deploying a cloud-based Windows desktop with a standard compute and RAM configuration and a fixed cost for his hybrid workforce seemed like a great idea.

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

Limited WAN Bandwidth. In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year. As the number of connected devices grows—from smartphones to tablets, and more—this strain on WAN bandwidth is inevitable. BYOD Will Fail to Live up to the Hype.

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Effective Network Monitoring and Management: 5 Best Practices

Kaseya

Continuous network monitoring is essential to make sure all your IT networks and systems maintain a high level of uptime. They allow IT teams to identify and troubleshoot issues and keep networks and systems up and running. Many organizations use WAN links to interconnect local area networks (LANs) at geographically dispersed sites.

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Government Agencies Warn of State-Sponsored Actors Exploiting Publicly Known Vulnerabilities

Tenable

While the NSA alert focused primarily on National Security Systems, it ends with a broader warning, "Due to the various systems and networks that could be impacted by the information in this product [the NSA alert] outside of these sectors, NSA recommends that the CVEs above be prioritized for action by all network defenders.".

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Difference between Computer Science and Information Technology

The Crazy Programmer

Computer Science people are mainly focused on software, operating systems, and implementation. After the creation of an application, information technology works on application to manage, install, design, continuously regulate, and run it on the operating system. We can say that Computer scientists can talk to computers.

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comdivision – Cloud expertise from design to deployment and management

CIO

Enabling a leading manufacturer to streamline global operations comdivision works with customers of all sizes, across multiple industries, delivering solutions that range from cloud infrastructure, management, and automation to digital workspaces, data center virtualization, software-defined networking (SD-WAN), and more.

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RMON: A Closer Look at Remote Network Monitoring

Kaseya

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol for monitoring and managing network devices on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) and is sometimes even used to configure remote devices.

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