Microsoft is ending unmanaged accounts for business-to-business collaboration in Azure Active Directory, resolving a major pain point for customers that had led to increased support costs and made access management difficult. According to the Redmond, Wash. IT giant, this makes external collaboration more secure in Azure Active AD, now part of the company’s rebranded suite […]
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Workplace Design That Enhances Brand, Health, and Culture
Barco is running a series of interviews with Key Opinion Leaders about market trends on Workplace Visualization. This is the latest interview in the series with Emily Webster, Creative Leader at ESI Design, an NBBJ studio.
The art of transforming the actual workplace into a ‘wow’ experience that draws employees back, showcases the company story, and engages guests and partners requires design and planning that fuse form with function; that evolves to meet the changing needs of employees and clients and that is human-centric at its core. It utilizes the physical […]
CompTIA: Tech Hiring Remains Solid Despite Economic Worries
The tech sector adding 25,000 new workers in August, boosting tech industry employment in 2022 46% ahead of last year, CompTIA says.
Organizations are continuing to grow their technology teams, with the tech sector adding 25,000 new workers in August, boosting tech industry employment in 2022 46% ahead of last year and 92% ahead of 2019, according to IT association CompTIA. Throughout the economy, companies added 21,000 tech workers for the month, but the unemployment rate for […]
Microsoft Rolls Out New Azure MFA Migration Tool
Microsoft is launching the general availability of the new Azure MFA Server Migration Utility to help customers modernize security.
Microsoft is launching the general availability of the new Azure MFA Server Migration Utility to help customers modernize security and migrate from on-premises MFA Server to cloud-based Azure MFA. This comes after Microsoft began blocking new downloads of the on-prem MFA Server since July 2019, pushing customers toward Azure MFA, which Microsoft calls its “premier […]
This Week in IT: Zero Trust, TikTok Bug, Remote/Hybrid Work Solutions
Zero trust data solutions, a vulnerability in TikTok, and new remote and hybrid work solutions round up this week's IT news.
Editor’s note: There is a lot going on in the world of IT, from emerging technologies to digital transformation and new cybersecurity threats. However, we can’t possibly cover it all, so we’ll bring you This Week in IT, a curated summary of IT and enterprise technology stories each week. Big tech players add zero-trust security […]
IHSE USA Introduces Draco tera IP Gateway
Users have the ability to bridge multiple KVM matrices over existing IP networks with IHSE's Draco tera IP Gateway.
IHSE USA announced a new solution: Draco tera IP Gateway. The Cranbury, N.J.-based company is, of course, a prominent KVM provider. The Draco tera IP Gateway provides users with the ability to bridge multiple KVM matrices over existing IP networks within buildings, across campuses and between remote corporate offices. Integrating the high levels of security […]
Microsoft’s Azure VMs with Arm-Based Processes Now Generally Available
All Azure customers can now deploy Arm-based virtual machines using the Azure portal, SDKs, API, PowerShell and the command-line interface.
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-— […]
Slack Unveils New Security Upgrades
Slack is releasing three new security features to help organizations detect suspicious behavior and leverage different identity providers.
Workplace communication platform Slack is releasing three new security features to help organizations detect suspicious behavior, protect their Slack instance with proactive alerts and configure 12 different identity providers to a single organization. With remote and hybrid work proving to have staying power regardless of the existence of a health crisis, tools such as Slack […]
Microsoft: This is How to Protect Against Ransomware
Microsoft says securing identities, hardening cloud infrastructure and leveraging comprehensive security tools will help protect against ransomware.
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 […]
AI Contact Center Agent Spending Will Reach $2 Billion This Year
Gartner say conversational artificial intelligence will reduce contact center agent labor costs by $80 billion in 2026.
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 […]
