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Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

CIO

She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. She has extensive experience both as a researcher and a business and technology journalist, covering a broad range of issues and topics. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO

Now, they access that information in a secure cloud via a safety-hardened device connected to a site-wide private 4G wireless network. For now, Dow’s private wireless network uses LTE, a 4G technology, but it will be ready for 5G when 5G is ready for it. Using an older and slower wireless technology hasn’t hurt the project, though.

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO

She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. She has extensive experience both as a researcher and a business and technology journalist, covering a broad range of issues and topics. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO

She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. She has extensive experience both as a researcher and a business and technology journalist, covering a broad range of issues and topics. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO

She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. She has extensive experience both as a researcher and a business and technology journalist, covering a broad range of issues and topics. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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Well, it's complicated: Skype for Business challenges

Loom Systems

However, the huge advantage and potential of widespread communications, especially spanning globally, is also its biggest challenge: complication. Connecting multiple end points requires an effective and robust infrastructure, which can encompass many forms of communication. Relying on external components.

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Cacophony of Collaboration Tools May Not Be Helping Productivity

Presidio

It seems like every day we hear that we have more choices than ever before to communicate, but somewhere along the way we gave up on the dream of Unified Communications, and just moved on to Collaboration. Bandwidth was still “limited”, texting, email, the phone and voicemail were the ways we communicated.

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