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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

Hard costs include: Setting up the infrastructure (servers, connectivity, storage, gateways, sensors/input devices, and hardware) and integrating the edge deployment with it. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says. Some storage will likely stay on-prem while more is pushed into the public cloud, he says. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO Business Intelligence

They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Thriving in a Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Security World

Cloud Musings

Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing. Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure - Agile programming of everything from applications to basic infrastructure is essential to enable organizations to deliver the flexibility required to make the digital business work.

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IDG Contributor Network: Why the best work tools play nicely together

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The idea of “unified communications” sounds good in theory. I mean, who wouldn't want to have only one vendor to worry about for email, phone, instant messaging, calendar, contacts, office software and storage.