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IDG Contributor Network: Why the best work tools play nicely together

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The idea of “unified communications” sounds good in theory. I mean, who wouldn't want to have only one vendor to worry about for email, phone, instant messaging, calendar, contacts, office software and storage.

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IDG Contributor Network: Why the best work tools play nicely together

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The idea of “unified communications” sounds good in theory. I mean, who wouldn't want to have only one vendor to worry about for email, phone, instant messaging, calendar, contacts, office software and storage.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says. Some storage will likely stay on-prem while more is pushed into the public cloud, he says. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

Industry : Cloud data storage. CEO : Bill Richter , former president of Isilon storage division at EMC. Co-founder and CEO : Anoop Gupta , former distinguished scientist at Microsoft who was a former technical assistant to Bill Gates and previously led Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group. Qumulo Photo).

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Thriving in a Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Security World

Cloud Musings

Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing. Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure - Agile programming of everything from applications to basic infrastructure is essential to enable organizations to deliver the flexibility required to make the digital business work.

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Si può tornare indietro dal cloud? Ecco che cosa ne pensano i CIO italiani

CIO Business Intelligence

Nel 2019 ho valutato un importante progetto cloud per l’azienda in cui lavoravo in quel momento, e che aveva l’esigenza di cambiare il data center e avere più storage. Di cloud exit, però, poco si parla, al contrario di quanto sta accadendo, invece, negli Stati Uniti, dove si registrano alcuni casi di dietro front.

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How do CSPs sell more to SMEs?

TM Forum

These include products such as unified communications; blending office applications, cloud storage, security and communications into a converged ICT offer; supporting the. Work Anywhere paradigm. ; and converging connectivity offerings into a. connectivity-as-a-service. BT’s.

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