As end-customer demand shifts toward using cloud platforms, solution vendors must follow suit. Microsoft Teams is among the most sought-after collaboration solutions; however, it takes a few steps before one can play in this space and reap the rewards of doing so. Once Microsoft approves a partner’s request to join a program, and paperwork is [...]
From a conversation w/Chakra Devalla, of @tekvizion, @DaveMichels explains why testing for #UCaaS has become increasingly important. Read why he thinks automated testing accelerates innovation and scales with demand. http://ow.ly/C4nF50Cuu7z
UCaaS (UC-as-a- Service) adoption is skyrocketing, and the pandemic is boosting it further. There are multiple UCaaS providers in the market today including Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, 8x8, Vonage, Zoom, and others. Cisco recently evolved its Webex client with BroadWorks (BW) calling capabilities and released it as Webex for BroadWorks for service providers utilizing [...]
I always wanted to try fly fishing, but never really understood where to start. On my recent trip to Colorado, I decided to try a guided fly-fishing activity and it was an absolutely thrilling experience. My friend mentioned an interesting point about fly-fishing saying it is only second to golf as an expensive sport. I [...]
With approximately 19,000 public APIs and 172 being added to the list every month, the dependency and prominence of the programming interfaces are dramatically increasing. In my previous post, “API usage in networks is proliferating; are these interfaces ready for the unexpected?”, I discussed the role the APIs are playing in machine-to-machine communication and the [...]
There’s an iconic TV advert in the UK for a breakfast cereal, where even the ‘hero’ can’t eat more than two Shredded Wheat. It was even cited by David Cameron when he was Prime Minister, when he declared he wouldn’t seek a third term. Created in the US in the 1890s, it was launched on [...]
‘Back office’ really doesn’t do justice to the pivotal role played by banks’ operations teams. It conjures an image of people dutifully beavering away to keep the lights on, happy for those on the frontline that is the trading floor to take the credit and glory. Nothing could be – or at least should be [...]
How banks can avoid falling foul of MiFID II reporting requirements Investment banks know they need to record their trades or face the wrath of the regulator. However, too often it is taken for granted with everyone assuming the recording is happening … until the regulator asks for it and they can’t find it. In [...]
APIs, these new generation programming interfaces are changing the dimension of machine-to-machine communication, causing a major shift in the pace at which software applications integrate and interact with each other. Owing to the benefits offered by these interfaces, the API usage is proliferating in all sectors. According to programmableweb, a popular news source for Internet-based [...]
Give your engineering and ops teams the greatest gift of all – time With the world’s largest institutions facing an existential threat from new fintech challengers, all eyes are on the DevOps team and their in-house lab to drive their own innovation in response. However, burdened with a legacy network and massively complex and interwoven [...]
