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Man on a virtual conference

17 May: Five Trends in Online Meetings

Perhaps this could also be titled “Covid: two years after meeting platforms got the biggest test of their lives”. Zoom saw 3300% growth in annual meeting minutes reported in October 2020. The simplification of it all is refreshing and they will continue to have a place in the workforce.

IT Solutions Professional Working from Home

24 Mar: Not a Hot-take: Technology and Business are Now Equal Partners

Not to state the obvious, all of us have been affected by COVID and the globally-instituted quarantine mandates. It wasn’t just business professionals who had to adjust to Work-From-Home. Students and teachers now had to interact virtually, retired citizens now had to access essential needs differently, and friends and family now had to socialize in a completely new way.

Managed Security

23 Feb: SSE vs. SASE – What’s the difference?

Gartner recently released a new Magic Quadrant for SSE – Security Service Edge for 2022 in addition to the Critical Capabilities Guide for SSE. Yes, it’s SSE and it’s not a typo – we didn’t forget the “A”. So, what about SASE – and why the need for another IT acronym? While the differences in the two may seem subtle, the application of technologies that fall into this space are distinct with the COVID Pandemic serving as the backdrop and impetus for the need in re-classification.

IT Professionals in server room looking at tablet

31 Jan: Microsoft 365 Price Increases: You Have Options to Lessen the Blow

After a decade on the market, Microsoft has announced a significant price increase to Office 365. The changes only effect commercial licensing at this point, but I would expect other offerings to increase as well. Beyond the obvious argument that prices have remained the same for ten years, they are touting the continuous innovation over the past decade to justify this boost. You have to hand it to them; they have been creative recently with feature additions to the products to provide more value to the customer.

IT Professionals in server room looking at tablet

20 Jan: ThousandEyes Equals Opportunity for Cisco Partners

To put it simply, there is a tremendous opportunity for Cisco partners to make money leveraging ThousandEyes. It’s no secret that your customers’ success depends on the digital experiences they provide to their customers and employees. Delivering suboptimal application user experiences can damage the reputation of a business and reduce its top-line revenue. And if your customers are not using ThousandEyes, they may have Internet blind spots that put them at risk of delivering degraded digital experiences.