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Gain detailed information on the technologies, products and services that will help you make informed decisions about your telecom needs, future and security. Qwest's white papers give ample information for you to be knowledgeable when conversing with colleagues and your Qwest representative about important choices and solutions.
Best Practices for Proactive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
How to plan, implement and execute a quick recovery strategy for local accidents and natural disasters
Today's unpredictable world puts pressure on IT departments to maintain business continuity in the face of many challenges. Natural disasters, network outages, cybercrime and security breaches can bring business to a halt if a company lacks a sound disaster recovery plan. However, with the right people, processes and technologies in place, companies can withstand and recover from even the biggest threats. In this paper, Dusty Williams, CIO of restaurant conglomerate OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, and Mike Cybyske, CBCP, Manager for Qwest Disaster Preparedness, review their experience with implementing disaster recovery plans in their organizations and best practices for maintaining business continuity in the face of natural or man-made disasters. View
Connecting to Better Customer Service
Does your company have what it takes to succeed?
To excel in today's business environment, executives must understand the opportunities and challenges of customer service. Today's organizations must embrace innovation, achieve a high level of responsiveness and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. View
Contact Center: Hosted Solutions
Why Hosted? Go Beyond the Traditional Contact Center
The contact center today is characterized by a conflict between its history and its current capabilities. Many businesses are discovering that making traditional premises-based solutions support new sophisticated customer contact management requirements entails a considerable amount of time, capital expense and expertise. As a result, companies and government agencies looking for a way to benefit from the powerful new contact center systems are turning to hosted contact center solutions. View
Do More with Less
How Service Providers Can Help Consolidate IT Expenses
CTOs know that today, when it comes to IT, more is no longer better. IT departments in every industry are faced with static or shrinking budgets and the mounting pressure to do more with less. To reduce operating expenses and network spending, they must find ways to maximize their current investments rather than make new ones. Opportunities for outsourcing infrastructure and applications management, WAN optimization, cloud hosting and software as a service (SaaS) are now available and can help IT departments meet their budgetary requirements for 2009. View
Electronic Health Records
Helping healthcare practitioners understand the benefits of implementing a system
A provision in the federal stimulus act is expected to transform the healthcare industry because of financial incentives for practices to improve the way medical records are stored. Here's how Electronic Health Records will help make your operations stronger and improve patient care. View
Ethernet for Financial Services
Metro Optical Ethernet for Financial Services
Financial services firms continue to offer more feature options, and more sophisticated, online transaction capabilities to differentiate themselves and enable their customers to access account information and transact business whenever and from wherever they choose. For example, to reinsert the personal service that the industry was based on, new "click to talk" options allow customers to access a live representative from within a Web portal, putting additional demands on connectivity requirements. Given the rapid adoption of these services, it's no surprise that the Meta Group estimates that a network outage can cost a financial institution more than $1.5 million per hour in lost revenue. View
Ethernet for Healthcare Providers
Metro Optical Ethernet for Healthcare Providers
BCDR, EMR, CPOE, PACS, ERP, RFID, and HIPAA1 are part of an alphabet soup of acronyms for technologies and regulations that are changing the way healthcare is delivered, and helping save lives. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been in place for several years, yet many healthcare providers remain uncertain about what is necessary to ensure full compliance. This uncertainty affects systems and practices, but also affects data security and the sheer amount of data that flows between locations in a healthcare organization. View
Ethernet for Manufacturing
Metro Optical Ethernet for Manufacturing
PLM, SPC, FMS, SCADA, WIP, and MES1 are all part of an alphabet soup of technologies that have changed the way companies in the manufacturing sector do business. ISO 90012 compliance influences the sheer amount of data that manufacturers must maintain to document processes. Yet a divide between enterprise systems and the factory floor still makes process improvement difficult. Secure, reliable high bandwidth connectivity between systems and across the company-wide network can help manufacturers bridge that gap to become more efficient, more competitive, and thus potentially more profitable. View
Ethernet for the Public Sector
Metro Optical Ethernet for the Public Sector
As with many organizations today, institutions in the public sector are rapidly adopting new online, self-service applications for citizens and employees, to add convenience, meet the demands of elected officials, and improve efficiency. One state recently introduced a separate Web site and set of online tools to help the uninsured find discounted healthcare. At the opposite end of the spectrum, public safety agencies demand connectivity with each other and with government databases that help them do their jobs more effectively. All of these applications consume bandwidth at an ever-increasing rate. View
Healthcare IT Security Necessity
Leveraging technology to serve patients requires an investment in IT security and risk management. Qwest's security solutions help protect you from dangerous viruses, spam and other threats reaching your business with state-of-the-art firewalls, disaster prevention, recovery products and on-demand audit reports. View
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What's Your IT Plan?
Learn how service providers like Qwest are responding to these immediate, real-world challenges to assist your company.