Pessimistic Security, Embedded Artificial Intelligence and EU's GDPR to Reign Supreme in the Legal Sector in 2018
Roy Russell, CEO of Ascertus Limited, highlights the top three technology trends in the legal sector in 2018:
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Glacier Bancorp awarded Axios North America Customer of the Year
Washington D.C., USA – January 16, 2018: Axios Systems, a pioneer of “Fit for Purpose” IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) cloud solutions, is delighted to award its Customer of the Year award to US-based financial institution, Glacier Bancorp.
Based in Kalispell, Montana, Glacier Bancorp provide commercial banking services in 91 communities and 146 banking offices across Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Arizona. They provide a wide variety of services including mortgage origination services, retail brokerage services and commercial, consumer and real estate loans.
Top Five Networking Trends for 2018
The top five networking trends that will shape 2018 are:
Security First
Cyber threats are becoming ever more sophisticated and increasing in volume. In addition, remote working or working across multiple sites and multiple devices, together with an increasing reliance on cloud-based applications, have all served to weaken traditional perimeter-based security.
Traditional firewall technology is no longer enough. Anyone designing or planning a new network deployment in 2018 must adopt a ‘Security First’ mantra, with security being embedded into the network elements and design.
Zylpha Launches New Document Bundling Integration For Peppermint’s Latest CX 2018 System
Leading legal document bundling software innovator Zylpha has developed an integration for Peppermint Technology’s latest CX 2018 system. The development is a product of a long successful partnership with Peppermint, the provider of widely acclaimed cloud based legal software for UK law firms.
Top 5 Unified Communications Trends for 2018
1. Continued mergers and acquisitions in UC market
We will see a continued growth in the number of mergers and acquisitions – from highly strategic and significant moves like Cisco’s acquisition of Broadsoft, through to smaller “roll up” plays in local markets in Europe, where niche players will start to be acquired by ambitious high growth and privately-funded entities.
2. Growth of video deployment for communications and collaboration
There is much more focus today on the overall User Interface (UI) and user experience, with video becoming a key technology to drive better communication and collaboration.
DevOps adoption accelerates but laggards risk being left behind, according to new Redgate research
Cambridge UK, Thursday, January 11, 2018 – Organizations are increasingly turning to DevOps within their development and database teams according to the 2018 State of Database DevOps Survey, conducted by Redgate Software with SQL Server professionals. 82% of the 700 organizations surveyed say they have either already adopted DevOps or plan to do so in the next two years, up from 80% in 2017. Over half (52%) have already implemented DevOps process on some or all of their projects, a jump from 47% last year.
Magnolia announces strategic financial partner
Magnolia, a Swiss CMS vendor, announced today Elvaston as a new strategic financial partner.
Based on Magnolia’s quality product and solid financial results, this long-term partnership sets Magnolia up for further sustainable growth and gives the privately-held company more resources to build an even stronger and better product.
In particular, the partnership will enable Magnolia to strengthen its business operations in all functional areas, to more effectively tap into the benefits of the cloud and to build leading-edge content management functionality. Magnolia CMS is available in the cloud or on-premises and integrates both traditional and headless deployment.
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Research: Cloud Workloads at Risk From Security, Management and Compliance Failings
Ontario, Canada – January 9, 2018 – New research from WinMagic released today has found that security, management and compliance challenges are impacting the benefits businesses are receiving from using the cloud as their infrastructures become more complex. 39% reported their infrastructure was more complex since using the cloud, and 53% spend more time on management tasks than they have done previously.