This highly informative executive brief is written for both IT and business leaders dealing with the rapid pace of change within their markets and the IT implications of new business initiatives, spin-offs, or mergers and Acquisitions. Each of these business impacting events presents unique challenges to IT that must be fully understood and dealt with.
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Learn the 7 Secrets to High Availability in the Cloud! These best practices are tailored to networking execs, architects and developers charged with delivering superior uptime for applications delivered in a hybrid IT environment.
Seven Secrets to High Availability in the Cloud
Written for IT decision-makers with responsibility for eCommerce infrastructure, this CenturyLink-commissioned survey by Forrester Consulting evaluates the current adoption trends and challenges with hosted eCommerce solutions. Read this report to ensure you are investing in solutions that will bolster your eCommerce infrastructure for a superior customer experience - while also driving the agility and operational efficiency you need to stay competitive.
Retailers Invest in Web and Mobile Performance to Win Business ...
Written for IT decision-makers with responsibility for eCommerce infrastructure, this CenturyLink-commissioned survey by Forrester Consulting evaluates the current adoption trends and challenges with hosted eCommerce solutions. Read this report to ensure you are investing in solutions that will bolster your eCommerce infrastructure for a superior customer experience - while also driving the agility and operational efficiency you need to stay competitive.
Retailers Invest in Web and Mobile Performance to Win Business ...
Transformation-oriented IT leaders can gain valuable insight in the webinar "Bridging the Gap: Future-state Roadmap for IT Organizations" with IDC Research VP Melanie Posey and CenturyLink VP David Shacochis. As IT evolves from being a "necessary evil" cost center to occupying center stage as a digital business enabler, IT leaders must reinvent themselves as "enterprise architects" who can serve as partners to the lines-of-business, ensuring that IT capabilities and resources are tightly integrated into business planning processes.
Bridging the Gap: Future-State Roadmap for IT Organizations
Is your organization thinking about or already implementing cloud technology? Being positioned as a Leader or Visionary in this Gartner report is viewed as the gold standard to which all cloud providers aspire.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2015
Server Virtualization has changed the way IT runs data centers across the world. Most enterprises now operate with a "virtual first" policy. However, the storage architecture that supports it has not kept pace
Software-Defined Storage: What it Means for the IT Practitioner
This solutions brief discusses how open source solutions can help enterprise IT leaders respond to the three primary challenges they face today: 1. An inability to address line-of-business demands 2. Resources consumed by maintenance 3. Technology threatened by unknown, disruptive changes in the future
Welcome Solutions Brief
Federal agencies today routinely offer teleworking arrangements to employees, allow users to collaborate with other decision-makers without leaving the office, enable employees to work on the fly via mobile technology, incorporate social media into communication to citizens, and offer a host of online-based services to the public. While these advances enhance productivity and citizen satisfaction, they also introduce many more points of potential network vulnerability.
Five Steps to Protecting your IT Infrastructure
IBM offers insights to CIOs regarding transforming the security organization into five core functional areas. Learn more in this whitepaper.