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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

CIO

According to McKinsey , the most resilient companies were 11% more profitable in 2020 than in 2019, highlighting the importance of flexibility as a key driver of value-added growth. Enhancing virtual learning with an experiential learning platform. Faster time to value.

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Zoom launches AI-powered features aimed at sales teams

TechCrunch

According to a 2020 McKinsey report , almost 90% of sales moved to a videoconference/phone/web sales model in 2020, as business-to-business companies in particular began to see digital interactions as highly important. Alongside it, Whiteboard, Zoom’s virtual whiteboarding product, will be generally available beginning April 19.

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

TechCrunch

I’m going to be returning full-time to my regular job editing Extra Crunch and stuff in the back offices here at TechCrunch virtual HQ. Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. TC Sessions: Space 2020 launches next week. Around TechCrunch.

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The Top 3 Benefits of Next-Generation SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

Dramatically reducing the operating costs of delivering branch services including network, security, visibility, unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) and multi-cloud access. 7 at our upcoming virtual event: The World’s First Next-Gen SD-WAN. . *The Enabling “anywhere work” by extending SD-WAN benefits to teleworkers.

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PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS: Making the Right Choice for Your Oracle Cloud Migration

Datavail

According to Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud Report , 98 percent of organizations are now using at least one public or private cloud. Cloud computing has gone from being a cutting-edge technology to a well-established best practice for businesses of all sizes and industries. compute, network, storage, etc.)

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How Leading Companies Support Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

This week, Kentik hosted a virtual panel with network leaders from Dropbox, Equinix, Netflix and Zoom to discuss how they are scaling their infrastructure and services to accommodate the unprecedented growth in network traffic during COVID-19. You can watch the replay of the virtual panel on-demand here. Remote Work-Life Balance.

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News in Networking: The Best Network Speeds, Cuba’s DIY Internet, and the Cost of Automation

Kentik

Mitel to Buy ShoreTel for $430M to Create Unified Communications Powerhouse (TechCrunch) Telecommunications company and UC provider Mitel is buying competitor ShoreTel. That will change with 5G — but likely not until 2020. Included in his opinion piece is an example: “AT&T currently employs 246,000 staff.

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