June 2, 2021
Blogs
June 1, 2021
Contentsquare Lands $500M Round to Take Digital Experiences to the Next Level
by Jim Lundy Contentsquare, a firm that is transforming the digital experience landscape by allowing enterprises to quickly understand and then adapt customer journeys, announced a massive funding round of $500M on May
May 31, 2021
Defi and Smart Contracts: DFINITY and Ethereum
by Adam Pease Recently, blockchain-based cloud computing provider DFINITY listed its cryptocurrency, ICP, on the Coinbase general exchange. ICP is of interest not just to investors and crypto traders, but to the enterpr
Will Facebook’s Push for Augmented Reality Help It Compete with Tiktok?
by Adam Pease and Jim Lundy While Facebook just published a new expose on its upcoming wearable augmented reality offering, it is fighting a war with Tiktok that features extensive use of Augmented Reality based filters
May 28, 2021
SolarWinds Hackers Impersonate USAID
by Craig Kennedy Microsoft announced on Thursday May 27th that its Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) had detected a wide scale malicious email campaign targeting around 3,000 accounts at 150+ organizations ac
May 27, 2021
May Aragon Cares: 2021 Grateful for Nurses Virtual 5k
by Amy Townsend For our May Aragon Cares activity, we chose to get outside and walk to support our nurses! This past year has been anything but easy for our first responders, so we wanted to do something to show our app
May 26, 2021
Microsoft Strikes Back at Amazon with Computer Vision
by Adam Pease At this week's Microsoft Build, Microsoft demoed its Azure Applied AI Services offering, which aims to deliver fast, streamlined AI solutions to the enterprise. This move foreshadows several trends that ar
May 21, 2021
12 Cool Technologies at Google I/O 2021
By Craig Kennedy The Google I/O 2021 developer conference came roaring back (virtually) this week after a 2-year hiatus. Last year’s conference was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this year’s conference ha
Cisco Dives Back Into Events with Acquisition of Socio Labs
By Jim Lundy Cisco was already updating Webex to refresh its webinar platform but on May 12, 2021, the company dove further into the events business by announcing the intent to acquire Socio Labs, a modern events techno
May 20, 2021
Guided Selling: Check Twice Before You Buy
By Jim Lundy There is a lot of hype in the market today by sales enablement providers that they offer guided selling. The truth is chasing some of them. As a sales leader, how do you know what you’re getting when you
Google Strikes Back at Microsoft Fluid with Smart Canvas
By Jim Lundy This week at Google I/O, Google announced the ability to embed objects from other Google Workspace apps right into Google Docs. This will make Google Docs much more of a digital work hub than ever before an
May 17, 2021
Digital Business Provides New Methods for Engaging with Customers
By Amy Townsend Supporting digital business presents exciting opportunities for organizations to create new business models, find new ways to engage with their partners and customers, and generate new business growth by
May 13, 2021
Pipelines Become Strategic: The Rise of Ransomware as a Service
by Craig Kennedy and Jim Lundy Last weekend Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the US, carrying 2.5 million barrels a day to Southern and Eastern states, was hacked and shut down. This pipeline alone carr
May 12, 2021
3 Blockchain Technologies That Are Changing Enterprise Workflows
by Katie Bartenslager Blockchain is taking the industry by storm and only continues to rise in popularity. Lately, with all of the new emerging technologies, it is hard to understand where each kind of technology is in
May 7, 2021
CSNF—One Less Hurdle to Multi-Cloud
by Craig Kennedy The New Security Standard for Cloud Providers A new standard in cloud security notification is being introduced that will vastly simplify the integration of security telemetry from public cloud providers
May 6, 2021
Chip Shortage Has Short and Long-Term Implications
by Jim Lundy The current global chip shortage is impacting more and more industries and it’s making people rethink their supply chains. While some think this is tactical, there are broader longer-term implications t
Computer Vision Comes of Age: Intel Dives In
by Adam Pease Recently, Intel partnered with John Deere to implement computer vision solutions for agriculture and other related industries. The semiconductor giant and the equipment manufacturer teamed up to put AI to
May 3, 2021
Reduce Your Organization’s Carbon Footprint Now: 4 Benefits
by Kalyn Stockman When was the last time you thought about your organization's carbon footprint? Personally, when I think about being sustainable, I think about my own actions–do I recycle? Do I participate in eco-fri
April 30, 2021
Government Cloud Wars: Project JEDI—May the Force Be With You
by Craig Kennedy This week a federal court judge ruled that Amazon’s lawsuit claiming interference in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract awarded last year to Microsoft can proceed. This