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

Arista Networks Inc. today released a new network observability software offering that brings together network infrastructure performance and data from compute and server systems of record to provide application and workload performance insights for data centers, campuses and wide-area networks.

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Arista looks to become numero UNO with new Universal Network Observability offering

In its recently reported fourth-quarter results, Zoom Video Communications Inc. put up strong numbers, beating revenue expectations by $17 million and operating income by $32 million.
Looking ahead to fiscal year 2025, Zoom management projected revenue of about $4.6 billion, representing revenue growth of 1.6%, in line with Wall Street expectations.

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Zoom’s most recent quarter checks all the right boxes

Cloud-based communications provider 8×8 launched a new offering called 8×8 Engage, designed to meet the needs of customer-facing employees who operate outside the traditional contact center environment. The platform combines 8×8’s unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS) capabilities in a user-friendly format.

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8×8’s Engage Product to Bring Contact Center Capabilities Outside the Contact Center

The shift toward hybrid work is more than a trend; it transforms how we view and value the workplace. Employers and employees alike are navigating this new terrain, balancing the appeal of in-person collaboration with the autonomy of remote work. Despite the positives, there is a notable gap between employee expectations for the office environment to support hybrid workspaces and the current state of office readiness.

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Report: Europeans Return To The Office But Hybrid Workspaces Need Modernization