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Enhancing Government Outcomes with Integrated Private 5G Private 5G is now ready to be part of your enterprise wireless communications transformation strategy. While there has been extensive focus on ultra-wideband gigabit speeds from public Mobile Network Operators, there are even greater government expectations for 5G capabilities to assure the quality of service and empower new mission-critical use cases. 3GPP standards are enabling delivery of capabilities in three strategic 5G areas: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable…

With shifts to hybrid work, IT talent continues to be in high demand across the globe. A recent report by Manpower Group suggests IT and data skills represent the largest hard-skills talent shortage worldwide. India alone faces a shortage of 1.5M to 1.9M tech professionals by 2026. India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Future of Work report identifies access to new and diverse talent, continuous learning, upskilling of the workforce and frontline…

Creating an ecosystem that provides equal opportunities for diverse startup founders, entrepreneurs, and venture leaders has garnered a lot of discussion and has been the focus of many industry initiatives over the last decade. These efforts have accelerated and gained a new level of importance recently in the wake of global events that have shown a new light on economic inequities, especially in the venture and startup ecosystem. The results are encouraging. According to a…

As temperatures in the UK reached a record-breaking 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, data centers belonging to Oracle and Google Cloud reported cooling-related failures, causing issues for customers trying to access services. Multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services were disrupted, including networking, storage and object compute resources, all of which are powered by servers in the south of England, where temperatures were among the hottest on record. A message appeared on Oracle’s status…

Multi-cloud networking software (MCNS), which is available from industry stalwarts like Cisco and VMware, as well as a slew of startups, is designed to address the challenge of how to safely and efficiently connect networks and applications across multiple public cloud environments. Traditional approaches to network architecture and operations are untenable in today’s multi-cloud world, says Brian Casemore, vice president of research, datacenter and multi-cloud networking at IDC. And the cloud service providers have come…

Israel-based SASE (secure access service edge) provider Cato Networks has announced a security service edge (SSE) offering, Cato SSE 360, that includes Cato DLP, a capability for data loss protection across business applications that allows for customizable rules. Along with SSE 360, Cato is also offering a new expert certification for the SSE  architecture. “Traditional SSE architectures are mostly proxy-based solutions which have limited visibility and control over WAN traffic as they only take into…

Picture this: An MSP receives an urgent call about degraded user experiences for a SaaS application that comes with performance guarantees. Perhaps only a sub-set of users are being impacted intermittently, such as those in the Nordic region. How does the MSP identify the root cause if they are blind to the underlying Internet connecting the SaaS application to its users? They can’t, at least not without deploying ThousandEyes. Delivering exceptional digital experience requires visibility…

It was a hot, brutal summer day, the mercury was stuck in the mid-90s. It was the kind of heat that makes waves of hot air dance in the distance and mirages glisten on the horizon. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, worried I was a bit underdressed to be meeting with a customer. But I wasn’t visiting any ordinary customer, I was at BottleRock Napa Valley in the heart of California’s wine country;…

Health equity is defined as the ability to fulfill our human potential in all aspects of health and well-being. It goes beyond access to care. Health equity encompasses clinical, mental, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual health, and is influenced by social, economic, and environmental factors.1 Healthcare organizations have a critical role to play in health equity, as they are not only responsible for delivering care, but can also be advocates for change within the clinician…

IT organizations are constantly evolving, whether it’s moving to the cloud or moving to an agile environment. They love to innovate, adopt new technologies, and create new ways of doing business. But as they move from one new thing to another, they can sometimes forget trailing infrastructure that may no longer be maintained by manufacturers, which generally only support a technology for a couple of years after its end-of-life (EOL) date. Everything expires or becomes…