Zoomtopia is back – this year in person – and so much has changed since the last time Zoom held a non-virtual user event.

In 2019, Zoom was primarily a video meeting company that focused largely on consumers and small businesses. That year, Zoom did $331M in revenue. The pandemic caused the use of Zoom to explode and it became integrated into our personal and professional lives.

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Zoomtopia Highlights: Zoom Zooming into Email and Calendar

Hot off a “beat and raise” quarter last week, Arista Networks Inc. Nov. 3 announced its continuous integration or CI pipeline for improved network as a service automation.

The new service is built on Arista’s recently announced EOS Network Data Lake. NetDL brings together its Network DataBase information and combines it with other data sources such as internet, application and user data.

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Arista’s continuous integration pipeline brings cloud principles to the network

This week Box Inc. is using its virtual user summit, BoxWorks 2022, as a way to map out the future of work — which it views as hybrid for good.

Box today announced the general availability of the revamped Box Notes for real-time content collaboration and project management, the upcoming beta of Box Canvas, for visual collaboration and whiteboarding, and the pending release of Content Insights, which provides visibility on how content is being accessed, consumed and used.

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The way we work: Box brings new capabilities to its Content Cloud

Earlier this year, I interviewed Jonathan Guy, VP of Engineering for RF Code regarding its new Sentry product, which promises to make management of remote locations easier.

After being briefed on the product, I decided to have the company send me a Sentry device and try it out myself. As a former IT pro, I’m familiar with the challenges that companies have when they need to manage locations with no local IT staff.

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Remote IT Monitoring Product Review: Code Sentry

Communications provider Mitel has made it a strategic priority to focus on customer lifecycle management (CLM) principles to ensure its customers are getting full value from their investments in its technology.

For Mitel, this is a key initiative as CLM in unified communication (UC) is important in making sure customers are maximizing business value and, at the same time, future proofing themselves. Hybrid work has shifted UC requirements in favor of collaboration platforms that connect people who are dispersed across many remote locations.

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Mitel Embraces CLM to Add Value to Communications