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Welcome to The Accedian Top 10 where we bring you the 10 most valuable pieces of content around performance, end user experience and cybersecurity threat detection we have recently come across. The list is compiled from articles, reports, and other interesting tidbits found by our performance and cybersecurity subject matter experts across the globe.
In this edition, with summer vacations just around the bend, it behoves us to discuss what your children (or yourselves, as is the case for many of my wonderful colleagues) will be spending their free time on: cloud gaming.
Read on for this week’s top 10!
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1. Cox launches Elite Gamer low-latency internet: Here it comes! Operators monetizing extreme performance requirements (and the hunger of hardcore FPS and RPG gamers).
2. Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights: 5G gaming and gaming-as-a-service: Listen to this podcast to hear about all things cloud gaming, the most important features that 5G brings to the revolution in cloud gaming, and Gaming-as-a-Service (GaaS).
3. Online Gaming’s Need for Speed: A few years ago, the gaming industry predicted the world domination of console-less or ‘cloud’ gaming. In fact, apparently “46% of UK gamers say they would quit their job, if they could support themselves as a professional video game player”.
And a bonus article on The Future of Gaming: An Infrastructure Arms Race at Work!
4. Live today! An Executive Panel on How to Succeed in Digital Transformation: Of the $1.3 trillion that was spent on digital transformation last year, it was estimated that $900 billion went to waste. Why do some digital transformation efforts succeed, and others fail? Join our partner, New Context, on an interactive panel (July 15, 13:00 Pacific time) where they discuss how to succeed in digital transformation.
5. Now seems like a bad time for a vacation, but here’s why you need to take one anyway: see why a productivity expert argues that it is even more important to take a vacation (or staycation) in these abnormal times.
6. The Do’s and Don’ts of Bringing Broadband to Unserved and Underserved America: an interesting update on Congress’ response to the pandemic in terms of closing the country’s remaining digital divides.
The Cyber Threat Detection Space
7. Have you been pwned? Check if you have an email account that has been compromised in a data breach!
8. And see how Have I been pwned? became the keeper of the Internet’s biggest data breaches in this TechCrunch article.
9. Data breach fines could skyrocket this year. Why? Employees have access to a lot more data, which could result in more data mishandling and breaches. And then there’s that whole expansion of the threat surface with the move to remote working…
10. Introducing ‘Secure Access Service Edge’: The industry’s latest buzzword is largely a repackaging exercise that bundles a collection of capabilities together and offers them as a cloud-delivered service.