Scott Brindamour | August 09, 2018
With digital transformation accelerating the pace of change, retailers must take a long-view approach to re-engineering customer experience or risk becoming obsolete. Analysts from IDC Retail Insights will be providing a series of thought leadership guest blogs on the state of digital business transformation for today’s retailers and the key IT pillars to optimize the digital journey.
The global economy is becoming more digital, more intelligent and more interconnected every day, whether one considers the percentage of the workforce employed in digital industries, the percentage that is digitally skilled, the percentage of products and services that have been digitalized, growth in IP traffic and interconnection bandwidth, the percentage of global population that is on net, or almost any other metric.
Talk of the summer heat and humidity may seem to dominate workplace chatter around water coolers this time of year, but for those who work for government agencies, cyber threats are an even hotter topic. Case in point is the Army National Guard, which needs to be able to securely connect dispersed users, teams and equipment during national emergencies via any communications medium. That’s why CenturyLink is heading south to New Orleans for the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) National Conference, from August 24-27, 2018.
VMworld 2018 is right around the corner! I look forward to this event every year, and I am especially pumped about the event this year. CenturyLink has a lot of exciting events planned for the week. Here are some of the highlights!
Pop Quiz: What’s the fastest-growing crime in the United States? If you answered cyberattacks, you’re correct. Cybersecurity awareness is the first step toward protecting your enterprise. The second step is to shore up your cybersecurity defenses. Right now. Today.
Agility, flexibility, efficiency, cost containment—some of the same high-level goals that spurred adoption of virtualization and public cloud services are now driving interest in the software-defined data center.
Whether shifting to cloud-based computing, deploying advanced IP-based voice and unified communications, or protecting information with data-driven precision analytics, digital transformation is happening everywhere. It’s helping to improve operating efficiencies, make IT more agile, and better manage risk.
Disasters and accidents happen. Human errors, fires, floods, power outages, severed network connections, and other events can bring your data center to a sudden, screeching halt.
