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CIO magazine recently ran an article on how CIOs are reshaping IT priorities in wake of COVID-19 and it reflects the reality we’re seeing across our own clients and the entire industry. The current pandemic is a health crisis. But for most businesses, many of the changes they needed to make to support stay-at-home directives had significant technology implications. Companies like this union benefits provider and this insurance company had…

There’s a lot of hype out there in the industry, and it can be difficult to figure out what’s essential for a stable, reliable network that supports your business requirements. You don’t want to over-invest in technology you really don’t need. But you also don’t want to miss out on improvements and innovations that can drive your business forward and deliver real ROI. The answer doesn’t start with the technologies…

The concept of telemedicine—using technology to deliver remote clinical services to patients—has been around for quite a while. The current shift to remote everything, however, has made telemedicine a necessity for virtually all non-critical healthcare. This means that healthcare organizations everywhere, ready or not, are forced to support telemedicine right now. But to be effective, telemedicine requires a strategy and network infrastructure that can support its unique needs. If you’re…

There’s a lot of talk about SD-WAN and the benefits it can deliver. If you’re a multi-site business with growing bandwidth needs, SD-WAN enables you to manage bandwidth more efficiently across all your locations. By decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism—that’s the SD, or software-defined piece of the acronym—SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of your WAN and enables you to dynamically share bandwidth across your connection points…