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CenturyLink sat down with Rick Villars, Vice President of IDC’s data center and cloud program, to talk about the five biggest challenges facing enterprises with hybrid IT environments. Download the IDC Report: 5 Business Challenges for Hybrid IT to see if you are asking the right questions regarding hybrid IT and to get an understand the new challenges  Hybrid IT poses for IT organizations. ...

Achieving 100% uptime is difficult under any circumstances. It requires the proper infrastructure, experienced staff and rigorous time-tested processes.  Best practices in IT infrastructure resiliency and disaster recovery are more important than ever.  Download the executive brief, “Enhancing IT Infrastructure Resiliency” to learn how to develop a plan to beat downtime. ...

Download Data Center Management Best Practices:  The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection. What are the key things IT decision makers evaluating data center providers should look for?  For one, an obsessive focus on a culture that literally celebrates process and procedure. Find out what else to look for to ensure you have an efficient, high-quality data center always be up and running. ...

Download CenturyLink's Data Center Selection and Design Best Practices technical brief for best practices in the layout, power and cooling, and planning of a data center to ensure it is helping you drive your business, not costing it money.  An optimally designed data center can reduce costs significantly without sacrificing performance. ...

Download “Best of All Worlds” now and fast-forward your business’ agility with a hybrid IT solution. Today’s fast and furious pace of business change is driving extreme demand for IT infrastructure agility. But even as the demand for agility must be met, so must the need for 100 percent availability. In “Hybrid IT: Best of All Worlds,” you’ll learn why this situation is leading many IT decision-makers...

Enterprises are turning to powerful new big data platforms that enable them to analyze 100 percent of their data to drive more insights and compete more effectively. To keep up with the data that they need to remain competitive, the data analytics tools that they rely upon will have to evolve. Download this eBook to learn how these data analytics tools assist Enterprises with obtaining the following: • Greater business and financial insight ...

Not only is big data redefining business management, marketing and operations principles, it is also transforming network performance requirements. Seven out of ten of enterprises and more than half of small and medium businesses have already deployed or plan to deploy big data projects. They understand the power of data analytics to fine-tune product and service offerings, enable more personalized interactions with customers and prospects, create eff...

Three out of four midsize businesses describe themselves as network dependent. While network-based business solutions can enhance productivity, market velocity and customer relationships, concerns about operating complexity, reliability and security challenge IT professionals at midsized companies. To gain the benefits of advanced networking and minimize the operating risks, companies are increasingly turning to managed network service solutions. T...

The federal cybersecurity framework released by the National of Institute of Standards and Technology in February was under development for a year; but the work didn’t stop with its publication. Since its release the private sector has been working hard to match their current and target cybersecurity practices to the framework. Not only has the White House said the framework is gaining traction among industry, it announced in a formal review...

Enterprises have a huge opportunity to transform their business if they can take advantage of the growing volumes of data they collect about customers, processes, relationships and transactions. But they first must be able to master the back-end data storage and analysis architectures that support data transformation. Read this whitepaper to learn: • Why new NoSQL and Big Data platforms like MongoDB and Hadoop need to supplement existing SQL...