Microsoft says its new Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors are now generally available, allowing customers to launch them in 10 Azure regions and multiple availability zones around the world. The company earlier this year launched the preview of new general purpose Dpsv5 and Dplsv5 and memory optimized Epsv5 Azure Virtual Machine series-— […]
Microsoft has outlined its three strategies to protect against ransomware and the growing as-a-service cybercrime economy that has taken hold among ransomware groups. As well as investing in “integrated threat protection across devices, identities, apps, email, data and the cloud,” Microsoft suggests organizations take three key strategies to protect against ransomware, including preparing a defense […]
Technology researchers from Gartner say conversational artificial intelligence will reduce contact center agent labor costs by $80 billion in 2026, with AI end-user spending to reach nearly $2 billion this year. There are currently about 17 million contact center agents worldwide today, but organizations are facing agent staff shortages and declining economic environments that are […]
Videoconferencing giant Zoom is launching Zoom Customer Managed Key (CMK), a new security offering designed to help customers address stricter compliance requirements and give them the ability to protect certain data stored within Zoom Cloud using their own encryption keys. According to Zoom, CMK is the company’s “newest advanced security offering.” The company says the […]
It seems like there are more acronyms, labels and methods for bolstering security than ever before – and making sense of them all is proving to be just as complex as the infrastructure they’re meant to secure. One widely embraced term, zero-trust architecture (ZTA), calls for continually vetting users as they access different applications and […]
VMware has announced several new products and innovations during its VMware Explore 2022 event this week, including new offerings to help customers navigate multi-cloud environments, advanced automation to ease hybrid work implementations, cloud and edge infrastructure and much more. New products announced during the show include vSphere 8, VMware vSAN 8, VMware Cloud Foundation+, VMware […]
Audinate, the Australia-headquartered developer of the Dante AV-over-IP solution, announced the immediate availability of Dante Domain Manager v1.4. It offers support for Dante-enabled video products such as PTZ cameras, HDMI encoders and decoders, and the Dante Studio suite of video tools. With Dante Domain Manager, AV-over-IP systems get IT-level monitoring, security and control, the company […]
XTEN-AV, an AI-powered, cloud-based AV design software, is now patented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent number is US 11,379,193 B2. This marks a recognition of the technology behind the audiovisual software. According to a statement from Union City, Calif.-based XTEN-AV, it is the only AV design-and-documentation software with a utility […]
Microsoft says it has uncovered a tactic used by Russia-aligned threat actors that is used to maintain persistence access to compromised environments after leveraging an Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) server. In a lengthy blog post, Microsoft details how NOBELIUM—the codename attached to the same threat group that leveraged the SolarWinds Orion platform and […]
AdventHealth, one of the largest non-profit health providers in the United States was looking for looking for an interactive display solution that was light, compact and critically, under 4 inches in mounted depth to meet with space restriction legislation. Working with the Vernon Hills, Ill.-based IT solutions provider CDW, AdventHealth found the ideal solution: the […]
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