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At the recent Zoomtopia event, the company touted its ability to power digital healthcare and financial services. Zoom already integrates with popular electronic health record (EHR) systems, such as Epic. This allowed the company to quickly shift to telehealth at the start of COVID-19. People were comfortable using Zoom to video chat with family, friends, […]

F5 has announced an agreement to acquire Boston-based Threat Stack for $68M. The purchase of Threat Stack is F5’s fourth acquisition in the past two years as the company is looking to transform from a hardware-centric network vendor to software and cloud company that provides network and security solutions. In 2019, the company made its […]

I recently spoke to Mark Wayland, chief revenue officer at Box, who explained how the platform is enabling enterprise users to secure, share, and easily access content in a hybrid work environment.

To better understand how Zoom has evolved to support educators and the value of digital platforms, I spoke with Pat La Morte, global education solutions lead at Zoom Video Communications.

Coming up on September 13th and 14th, Zoom will be holding its fifth annual Zoomtopia user event. Like last year, the 2021 Zoomtopia will be an all-digital event, which provides attendees access to a massive amount of content during and after the event. Since its inception, Zoomtopia has been a popular event for Zoom’s customers, […]

Organizations all over the world are entering a period of extended — and potentially permanent — hybrid work. As more people do their jobs outside the traditional office, IT administrators are becoming overwhelmed with managing hybrid workers, devices, and all the complexities that come with it. The changing workplace underscores the importance of ensuring that […]

This week Australia-based Appen announced a disappointing quarter, as many of its customers grapple with global privacy changes, causing a redirection of spend away from advertising to projects that include geolocation information. In an effort to shift the business toward these new areas of spend on its earnings call, Appen announced it had signed a […]

This morning Comcast Business announced its intent to acquire managed service provider Masergy. This move brings enterprise class network capabilities to Comcast Business as they attempt to move up market and take on Verizon and AT&T in a bigger way. Comcast currently has its own SD-WAN offering, leveraging its partnership with Versa Networks, but it’s […]

Networks of the past looked very different from networks today. Legacy networks were built for applications and data that resided in corporate data centers, whereas modern networks are built for cloud apps and a distributed workforce. Especially post-COVID-19, it’s unrealistic to run a cloud-first business on a network that was designed for a different era. […]

This week Cisco posted solid Q4 Fiscal 2021 results. The company ended its fiscal 2021 with strong performance, highlighted by revenues of $13.1B, up 8.8%, which was also $87M ahead of Street expectations. About 2.1% of the growth came from acquisitions, most notably IMImobile and Acacia, resulting in 6.7% of organic growth, which is certainly […]