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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Voice — set to disrupt business communications

CIO Business Intelligence

The combination of speech recognition and artificial intelligence has created a world where we can order food, play a TV show or song, and much more simply by talking to an Internet-connected device. Voice has a unique advantage over other channels of communication: it’s hands-free and eye-free. and manufacturing 7%.