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Online banking has almost become the standard, so that banks are using fewer and fewer employees on site. But many customers still want personal advice in the branch. Ratiodata Video Consult offers a practical solution here. Financial advice by video in the bank branch of the VR-Bankverein Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg eG. “I’ve been a customer of the bank since 1954 when I earned my first money – that was twelve D-Marks and 32 pfennigs,” recalls a long-established citizen…

In my role at Cisco as Distinguished Engineer, I’ve been working on how to simplify network management for our customers. Networks are becoming too complex to operate manually. Troubleshooting a network problem involves managing and applying reasoning over very large volumes of data. It is predominantly a high-touch, time-consuming, and error prone endeavor. It’s a task reserved for “masters of complexity”—network administrators who have amassed over decades of work the required expert knowledge to diagnose…

ROUND ROCK, Texas and ATLANTA, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary New Dell Technologies Managed Detection and Response service powered by Secureworks® Taegis™ XDR secures businesses’ IT environments with fully managed, 24/7 service monitoring, detection and response to threats With an easy-to-consume subscription model, companies with 50 or more endpoints can take advantage of Managed Detection and Response to get expert assistance for quick threat remediation and recovery Secureworks Taegis XDR security analytics software…

The cloud requires powerful, reliable throughput. There are more devices connecting than ever before. Security must be effective but cannot slow service. Your stakeholders expect a safe, optimal experience at all times, whether it’s an important email, a factory machine or video interview. Today, network interruptions can shut down business. Yet, when you look under that desk or in that closet, you still have an old router. Isn’t it time for an Edge Platform?  Catalyst…

The U.S. military is devoting time and resources into research on improving the signal quality and security of 5G–efforts that, if history is any indication, eventually will result in technologies that are available to commercial enterprises. As Breaking Defense reports, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded roughly $500,000 in “exploratory” funding to wireless startup MixComm to demonstrate whether silicon-based millimeter wave (mmWave) power amplifiers can economically boost radio signals so the Department…

OK, help me understand this. Microsoft just spent almost $20 billion to buy Nuance, the company that supplies the popular Dragon speech-to-text tool. Microsoft already has speech-to-text available in Windows 10 and through Azure, and even a partnership with Nuance. Nuance’s single big jump in stock price in its history coincides with Covid and WFH, which is now (hopefully) passing. Nuance revenue boom? Apparently, ending. The Dragon product? Incremental to Microsoft’s current position. Health care…

Organizations using Pulse Secure’s mobile VPN should patch vulnerabilities reportedly being exploited in the wild, possibly by a “Chinese espionage actor”. The patch–available here–is considered important enough that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave federal agencies a deadline of April 23 to apply them. CISA’s guidance states that federal users of Pulse Connect Secure VPNs must use the company’s free utility to ascertain whether their devices are vulnerable. If the vulnerability is found,…

I just upgraded my internet to 1Gbps this week using a DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem. Believe it or not, I could use more. I do a lot with video-streaming, and I run virtual machines (VM) off clouds and desktop-as-a-service (DaaS). I’m not alone. With so many of us working from home now, even a 1Gbps feels confining. Now, thanks to Comcast and Broadcom, we’re seeing the first tests of full-duplex (FDX) DOCSIS 4 system-on-chip (SoC)…

By: Larry Lunetta, Vice President of Portfolio Solutions Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company As IT pros continue on their journey to cloud, at the forefront of their collective minds is how they secure an increasingly complex IT environment where sensitive data is generated and processed at points between the edge, data centers, and the cloud. In fact, organizations today are migrating from large and centralized data centers to more diffused centers of data….

Have you ever bought a car without taking it out for a test drive? Subscribed into a streaming service without the free trial? Or bought a pair of glasses online before using the home try-on offer? I’m going to assume that 9 out of 10 times, the answer is a resounding No! Testing a product before committing to purchase is a key part of modern human behavior. And it makes sense – because why take…