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In This Issue: Has your IT budget grown or shrank? | Cisco 7937G Unified IP Conference Phone | Aruba Switches vs Cisco Switches | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Has your IT budget grown or shrank?
Happy Friday, folks! I read the Spiceworks State of IT report recently, which got me thinking about budgets in general. How has your company adjusted its budget this year? Are you seeing changes in IT-related projects, refreshing your networks, or pressing pause on new projects?
The study for this report was conducted in June 2022, so it’s just over a year old. The following image summarizes the entire information quite well:
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the report!
Thanks,
Chris
Product Spotlights & Updates
Cisco Unified IP phones provide exceptional levels of integrated business functionality and converged communications features, surpassing today’s conventional voice systems and competitive offerings. As the market leader in IP telephony, Cisco continues to deliver comprehensive end-to-end data and true voice-over-IP (VoIP) solutions, offering a complete, stylish, and fully featured IP phone portfolio for enterprise and small- and midsized-business (SMB) customers.
Learning Center Article – Aruba Switches vs Cisco Switches
When it comes to network switches, the variety of options can be overwhelming. There’s a specific switch for every niche networking role, and there are a dozen different brands making that one class of switch.
Out of all of those options, two leading brands are preferred in many professional networks: Aruba and Cisco. They are industry giants and leaders in many respects. When comparing them directly, it’s clear that you are getting different sets of benefits depending on which you choose.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Warner Bros. Discovery and Mattel’s “Barbie” has topped $575.4 million at the domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing movie of the year in North America.
- Warner Bros. Discovery said it will soon offer CNN Max, a 24/7 live news component on its streaming service Max. CNN Max will launch on Sept. 27.
- Meta’s Twitter clone called Threads, which launched last month and quickly shot up the app rankings, is starting to roll out on the web, giving users access from their PCs. The site, Threads.net, is not live for everyone yet and may still just show a link to download the mobile app. The web version will begin rolling out soon.
- A second Viasat communications satellite is malfunctioning in orbit, this time from the fleet of recently acquired U.K.-based Inmarsat. The I6 F2 satellite, which Inmarsat launched in February, suffered a failure with its power system while climbing in orbit to where it planned to operate as a backup.