March Madness attracts fans not only for the thrilling games but also for the iconic venues that host them. Maximizing the venue experience is critical for tournament and venue decision-makers. IPTV is rapidly emerging as an important feature at athletic facilities and arenas, playing an increasingly important role in delivering a diverse fan base's desired experience. Attendees at live games during March Madness experience much more than just the games themselves.

UK law firms face increasing financial fraud and ransomware attacks, posing severe threats to both the firms and their clients. Leaders in the sector must reassess their risk mitigation strategies. Nic Miller from Counter-RansomwareTM warns that law firms are often targeted since they handle high-value payments and possess sensitive client data.

As demand for high-quality video continues to rise rapidly with the popularity of streaming services, social media video, and user-generated content, analysts at Verified Market Research project that the market for video encoding technology will reach $3.1 billion by the end of the decade, growing at a steady CAGR of 5.31%.

It is in this context that Versatile Video Coding (VVC) — a video codec that offers improved efficiency and applicability for a wide range of applications — provides significant business and economic implications for many sectors of the economy that depend on high-quality video experiences.

While most large enterprise technology leaders have reconciled themselves to running complex hybrid enterprise infrastructures made up of on-prem and cloud-based resources for the foreseeable future, their risk-management posture should be firmly rooted in cloud-native security principles. So says Sean Flynn, Director of Security Technology and Strategy at Akamai, in a recent podcast interview with BizTechReports. 

Cloud migration and on-prem modernization initiatives have fundamentally changed how enterprise IT and security teams assess threats and manage risks to protect mission-critical assets. As a result, organizations across industries and geographies are expressing growing interest in the role that Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies play in managing risks associated with today’s complex hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructures.

So says Yuval Yatskan, Cisco’s senior director of solutions and product marketing for SSE, SASE, Cloud and Network Security, in a podcast interview for journalists.

If organizations are to achieve sustained success in their technology modernization initiatives, senior leaders should stop thinking of "cloud" as a "place" to send their workloads. According to Thoughtworks North America executives Ajay Chankramat (Head of Platform Engineering) and Wesley Reisz (Technical Principal), business and technology leaders ought to instead embrace the notion that "cloud" is a platform-based "operating model" that will lay the foundation for enterprise-wide systems integration, agility and resilience.

The global entertainment technology community is redefining how it develops, organizes and deploys value chains to ensure long-term viability in today's increasingly volatile and complex digital economy. As a result, executives are placing more importance on consistency and resiliency, de-emphasizing their singular reliance on lean-and-mean just-in-time strategies, according to Eric Rutter, founder and CEO of Mavsotech, a technology consulting company based in Philadelphia, PA, in a podcast interview for journalists.