The adoption of cloud-based audio and video conferencing has been on the rise over the past few years. Positioned as a market leader by Gartner in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions, Cisco Webex is the goto conferencing service for enterprises globally. Cisco Webex solutions are delivered as a…
SD-WANs are a significant development in wide area networking, and the first SDN technology to gain widespread deployment. Yet, their usefulness is being muddled by over-hyped expectations that they can provide all-seeing and all-controlling power over every aspect of enterprise IT communications.
With the rise of e-commerce and well-publicized troubles among so many traditional players in the retail landscape, it is sometimes tempting for technophiles to think that in-store retail is a vanishing species. However, the facts and recent developments belie that outlook. E-commerce was only 9.1% of U.S., retail sales in…
Salesforce is a mature SaaS application, yet many organizations are still plagued with network and application performance issues due to the unpredictability of the Internet and the complexity of the Salesforce platform. Salesforce, unlike other SaaS applications, such as Office 365, is not an “out-of-the-box” application. It’s typically customized by…
As of January of 2018, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has mandated the nine largest UK Banks—Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Danske Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, RBS Group, and Santander—to open up their data to third parties using a standard format. The mandate, known as…
