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Five takeaways from Zoom’s Perspectives event

Recently Zoom Video Communications Inc. held its annual industry analyst event, Perspectives, at its headquarters in San Jose, and it revealed much about the ongoing evolution of the videoconferencing company. The company’s first act was built on video and given a massive steroid shot during the COVID era, which turned a company few had heard of into a household name. Since then, the company has added a boatload of new features, added enterprise clients, reduced the churn in its online business, and moved into adjacent markets, most notably contact center.

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Five takeaways from Zoom’s Perspectives event

Veeam announces strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Copilot and AI services

Veeam Inc., which already protects some 18 million Microsoft 365 users is extending its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop joint AI solutions for its data protection and ransomware recovery platform. In an announcement today, the company said its engineering collaboration will result in capabilities to help keep organizations running despite attacks, outages and natural disasters.

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Veeam announces strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Copilot and AI services

What’s behind Microsoft’s big security shakeup – and what needs to come next

Posting on LinkedIn last week, Charlie Bell, executive vice president of security at Microsoft Corp., last week announced a shakeup of its security organization in the wake of a Chinese government-backed hack that resulted in the theft of U.S. government emails.

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What’s behind Microsoft’s big security shakeup – and what needs to come next

Veeam gets into the backup-as-a-service game for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure

Veeam Software Inc. Wednesday announced a couple of new offerings in the backup-as-a-service market: Cirrus by Veeam for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

I had a chance to get a pre-briefing with Veeam Chief Technology Officer Danny Allan and asked him what was behind this move. He said it’s primarily about giving customers the flexibility to choose how they want to use Veeam to protect their business whether it’s in the cloud, on-premises or a combination of both.

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Veeam gets into the backup-as-a-service game for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure

Ranking the converged network and security platforms

One of the major themes from last week’s RSA Security conference was the rise of converged network and security platforms as organizations look to consolidate the number of vendors they have and leverage the ubiquity of the network.

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Ranking the converged network and security platforms