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June 30, 2020A new report by Trustwave’s Threat Fusion Team has uncovered a previously unknown malware targeting companies doing business in China. The malware was uncovered through a recent proactive threat hunt commissioned by an undisclosed client. Named “GoldenSpy” by Trustwave, the newly discovered code is embedded in tax payment software required by a Chinese bank in order to conduct business in China. -
June 29, 2020AVANT Network of Trusted Advisors Now Offering Zoom’s Portfolio of Solutions throughout Europe LONDON – June 29, 2020 – AVANT Communications, a master agent and leader in channel sales enablement of next generation technology solutions, announced the expansion of their partnership as part of Zoom’s Referral Partner Program to offer Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform through AVANT's network of Trusted Advisors in Europe.
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June 29, 2020AVANT Network of Trusted Advisors to Offer Avaya UCaaS Solution Featuring All-in-one Voice, Text, Meetings, Video Conferencing, Collaboration and More LONDON – June 29, 2020 – AVANT Communications, a master agent and leader in channel sales enablement of next generation technology solutions, and Avaya Holdings Corp.
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June 19, 2020On this day, 155 years ago, slavery was officially abolished, thus creating a holiday known as “Juneteenth.” June 19th is a celebration for many Americans for the end of slavery. It’s not just a celebration for freedom, but a reminder of the fight that many African-American ancestors had to suffer for many years.
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June 16, 2020Getting the most bang for the buck will be the focal point for enterprise decision makers as the business world works to extract itself from the fears, uncertainties, and outright dangers of the Covid-19 pandemic. A Gartner, Inc. survey of 103 CFOs and senior finance leaders taken at the end of May revealed that CFOs will continue to scale back spending by 4% to 11% across their selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) functions for 2020.
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June 9, 2020We at AVANT Research & Analytics love to keep enterprise decision makers and the Trusted Advisor community up to date on what’s hot and what’s not. To that end, our annual State of Disruption Report focuses on how newer technologies are displacing the older ones.
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June 2, 2020The move to Unified Communications as a Service is one that requires substantial planning and close examination of the needs of multiple “constituents within your organization. There are the department leads, key managers, and the finance people who must attend to the conversion from a budgetary point of view.
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May 12, 2020Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is one technology that fits with virtually every vertical market. Some of the most prominent ones, however, include Gov/Ed, Healthcare, IT, Manufacturing, Media, Retail, Travel/Hospitality, Transportation, and Utilities. “We’ve seen a lot of use cases in retail,” said Mitel’s Jim McGarry.
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May 11, 2020CHICAGO – May 11, 2020 — AVANT Communications (“AVANT”), a platform for IT decision-making for next generation technologies announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named three women leaders – Jennifer Gallego, Shannon Orr and Bana Qashu – to its esteemed 2020 Women of the Channel list.
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April 30, 2020Stratosphere Networks and AVANT Communications Rally Chicago’s IT Community to Build McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility’s IT & Telecom Network in Two Weeks Largest Convention Center in North America Transformed into COVID-19 ACF CHICAGO – April 29, 2020 – Stratosphere Networks, a trusted advisor for technology services, and AVANT Communications (“AVANT”), a platform for IT decision-making for next generation technologies, today announced the two companies, along with their IT partners Evolve IP, Ignyte, RapidScale, Spectrotel, Synoptek, and Trustwave, led the rapid transformation of the McCormick Place Convention Center into the McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility (ACF); a dedicated COVID-19 facility to act as a relief valve on the local hospital system.
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April 7, 2020To most of us, video capability at the desktop is not a new thing. It was that dusty button that most people ignored during web-based conference calls. If we were working from home, we were even less likely to use it.
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March 31, 2020The value proposition of Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) is about enhancing the customer experience through newer capabilities such as SMS, video, and even certain types of social media. UCaaS also supports the gathering of data and analytics so that interactions with customers and other constituents can be effectively measured.
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March 24, 2020If, thirty days ago, you’d asked anyone in the tech industry if we live in cloud-based virtual communities, the answer would almost certainly have been yes. They would have been right (sort of). As it turns out, the training wheels are now coming off of our virtual lives, and this has been happening in a way that was unpredictable to many of us.
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March 17, 2020As covered in this blog space last week, AVANT has launched its latest 6-12 Report. This one is on IT Security. The mission of the 6-12 Report is to provide the enterprise decision maker with a detailed assessment of the featured technology so that they can make an educated decision on whether to pull the trigger on that technology within the next six to 12 months.
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