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Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980

Hybrid work has increased the need for high-quality multifunctional headsets, as remote workers seek to reduce background noise from remote workspaces, or simply enjoy music while on the go. In light of this, Bang & Olufsen and Cisco have announced the creation of the Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980, a luxury business headset that pairs Bang & Olufsen’s unique combination of timeless design, unrivaled craftsmanship and powerful sound with Cisco’s integrated meeting controls, Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation, and frictionless IT management capabilities to ensure long-lasting, secure communications.

Key features of the Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980 include: • Enhanced capabilities for business: With Bluetooth 5.1,

Webex integrations, voice prompts and convenient on-ear call controls that allow users to easily mute, answer or end calls, the Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980 offers industry-leading connectivity and functionality. • Crystal clear communication:

Elevate and enhance calls, meetings, video and music experiences with premium acoustics and audio, including beamforming microphone arrays that create a Virtual Boom Arm and help to power Adaptive Active

Noise Cancellation providing a more immersive listening experience. Rich, immersive audio helps users feel as if they are in person and excellent noise canceling lets users focus on the task at hand. • Lasting comfort and timeless design: The headset is designed to provide unmatched comfort.

The Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980 is crafted in a lightweight structure that has been carefully engineered with high-end materials to ensure a stable, enduring fit for all-day use. • Enterprise-grade management and security: IT administrators can easily deploy, manage, and view real-time analytics of the Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980 – all from a single platform.

It also provides enterprisegrade hardware and software protection to help calls and conversations stay secure.

The Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980 will be available to order starting early 2022 at the suggested resale price of $549.

Aruba CX 10000 Series

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has introduced the industry’s first Distributed Services Switch enabling enterprises to deploy software-defined stateful services where data is created and processed, eliminating legacy appliances and host software needed to build the hybrid clouds demanded by modern applications and IT organisations.

The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch represents a new category of data center switches that combines best-ofbreed Aruba data center L2/3 switching with the industry’s only, fully programmable DPU (Pensando Elba) to deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performanceimprovements over traditional data center L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO. The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch with Pensando provides an entirely new class of switching solution to overcome the limitations of legacy architectures. The Aruba CX 10000 will allow operators to extend industry standard leaf-spine networking with stateful distributed microsegmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT, encryption, and telemetry services – all delivered inline, all the time, on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise applications run.

AMD Instinct MI200 higher memory bandwidth vs. AMD previous gen GPUs, offering the industry’s best aggregate peak theoretical memory bandwidth at 3.2 terabytes per second. AMD has announced the new AMD Instinct MI200 series · 3rd Gen AMD Infinity Fabric technology – Up to 8 Infinity accelerators, the first exascale-class GPU accelerators. Fabric links connect the AMD Instinct MI200 with 3rd Gen AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators includes the world’s EPYC CPUs and other GPUs in the node to enable unified fastest high performance computing (HPC) and artificial CPU/GPU memory coherency and maximize system intelligence (AI) accelerator, the AMD Instinct MI250X. throughput, allowing for an easier on-ramp for CPU codes to

Built on AMD CDNA 2 architecture, AMD Instinct tap the power of accelerators. MI200 series accelerators deliver leading application performance for a broad set of HPC workloads. The AMD Instinct MI250X accelerator provides up to 4.9X better performance than competitive accelerators for double precision (FP64) HPC applications and surpasses 380 teraflops of peak theoretical half-precision (FP16) for AI workloads to enable disruptive approaches in further accelerating data-driven research.

Key capabilities and features of the AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators include: · AMD CDNA 2 architecture – 2nd Gen Matrix Cores accelerating FP64 and FP32 matrix operations, delivering up to 4X the peak theoretical FP64 performance vs. AMD previous gen GPUs. · Leadership Packaging Technology – Industry-first multi-die GPU design with 2.5D Elevated Fanout Bridge (EFB) technology delivers 1.8X more cores and 2.7X

Poly has announced the addition of the Poly Studio X70 and Poly Studio E70 to its family of video conferencing solutions at Zoomtopia 2021. The Poly Studio family is designed to upgrade the video collaboration experience and generate meeting equality by bringing pro-grade audio and video to large workspaces.

The lineup of Poly Studio video conferencing gear brings broadcast-quality video to every meeting, regardless of the participants’ location, so participants can be seen brilliantly and heard clearly. The Poly Studio X70 and Poly Studio E70

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feature Poly Director AI technology, which includes Acoustic Fence, and NoiseBlockAI, ensures that meetings have the feel of a real live broadcast-quality production with its own in-room director.

The new devices come in the wake of emerging trends that are set to shape the future of remote and hybrid working environments across the globe and in the UAE in particular. According to the Poly Evolution of the Workplace survey, 44.40 percent of UAE workers noted that better equipment and technology would be the main drivers to return to the office in the future.

Poly DirectorAI is the brain behind Poly’s cutting-edge video experiences. It uses AI and machine learning technology to deliver real-time automatic transitions, framing and tracking that make everyone feel like they are in the room together. Poly DirectorAI perfects the hybrid working experience by seamlessly connecting those in the meeting room to those joining remotely.

The Poly Studio E70 intelligent camera and Poly Studio X70 video bar are both Zoom-certified solutions that will support Zoom Rooms Smart Gallery to bring meeting equality to medium and large rooms. Zoom Rooms Smart Gallery will use AI to create a gallery view, and send up to three unique video streams to frame-up in-room participants to remote attendees, to make sure everyone gets the face-to-face communication they crave.

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

SUNIL PAUL, MD OF FINESSE, ON WHY AN ECM PLATFORM IS CRITICAL FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION SUCCESS

Organisations across sectors are turbocharging their digital transformation journeys. Of course, becoming a digital enterprise means different things for different companies. It largely depends on the industry, type of products and services, target audience, and so on. However, one critical and common element to all digitalisation plans is ensuring content is at the heart of the transformation.

This is where Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions can make a colossal difference. Data is growing at unprecedented rates, both in volume and complexity. The factors driving this growth include rising mobile data, increased adoption of cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0 technologies.

Global data creation is estimated to grow to more than 180 zettabytes by 2025, as per a Statista report. Today, everyone knows that content is the new currency, but it is only valuable if you can glean actionable insights. To do this, data must be stored in an organised way for easy access and analytics when required. Yet, how many companies are guilty of having a large repository of data but struggle to action it? Often businesses find themselves data-rich but insight poor. Becoming a digital enterprise begins and ends with data. The first step is to effectively capture information, then classify, secure, store it, and activate it to help achieve business objectives, understand customers better, and customise marketing strategies.

ECM is the umbrella term used to describe the systematic process of managing an organisation’s content lifecycle. ECM platforms allow businesses to leverage unstructured and inaccessible data and employ the valuable knowledge gained to enhance business efficiencies, streamline processes and deliver engaging customer experiences. These solutions help capture and store documents digitally, access them from any location or device, automate paper-driven processes, and secure them to reduce organisational risk. An effective ECM can also help build a powerful data compliance strategy.

ECM platforms’ origin goes way back to the 2000s. In 2017, Gartner declared ECM was dead and introduced the term ‘content services’. Over the years, ECM has evolved to involve many more aspects of content services and applications, but is it dead? Market intelligence and advisory firm Mordor Intelligence begs to differ – its recent report values the ECM market at $47.29 billion in 2020 and estimates it will reach $105.56 billion by 2026. There has never been a greater need for content management solutions. But instead of deploying traditional ECM models with central repositories, it is now moving to one where content services technologies are being used. This helps for contextual content – disseminating the right information to the right user at the right time to help complete a business task successfully.

Intelligent information is a decisive factor in determining the success of digital transformation. Often businesses know what they need but do not know how to go about it or are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data they must manage. When designing a modern ECM strategy embedded with content services and applications, begin with a department or function to see the maximum benefits. It is also essential to conduct an analysis of operations to understand the objectives that are desired with ECM solutions. Mapping out specific goals and KPIs for ECM will help in ensuring business continuity and delivering continuous great customer and employee experiences. Selecting an ECM provider that has the foresight and aligns with your business goals is another critical factor to consider for a successful ECM implementation.

Data is a valuable asset that all organisations in the digital age have access to. By implementing the right strategies and embracing the right tools such as ECM, organisations must harness this data to maximise resources, streamline operations and achieve limitless possibilities in fulfilling their digitalisation ambitions.

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