Enterprise Tech Spotlight: public sector tech, customer experience, data security

Fight the looming autumnal doldrums with a healthy dose of enterprise technology news. This week, we examine how solution providers can work with vendors to tap into the public sector market, new technologies being implemented to improve the customer experience, why it pays to be ready for a data breach well before it happens, and the latest in managed software-defined network services.

Beating The Odds In Public Sector

Fear of grappling with red tape may keep some channel players from exploring opportunities in the public sector. However, local and state government sub-verticals, as well as the education segment, are viable markets for SMB VARs. (VSR)  

Verizon, Cognizant Partner For Customer Experience Solutions

Together, the companies will help enterprise clients design, deploy and manage customer experience solutions that integrate social, mobile, analytics, cloud and sensor technologies. (CRN)  

Are You Exposed? Lessons From Ashley Madison

Data breaches are only a matter of time so companies need to know what to do to prevent, respond and contain breaches when they happen. (ComputerWeekly.com)  

Verizon Rolls Out Smart WAN Services With SDN

Verizon's Managed Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) service matches individual applications on the network to routing policies which are defined by the enterprise on an application-by-application basis. (The New IP)

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