The document discusses how enterprises are increasingly pursuing interconnection strategies to drive revenue growth in today's digital economy. It finds that the number of interconnected enterprises is expected to more than double by 2017. Interconnection provides quantifiable benefits like increased revenue opportunities and cost savings, with over 1/3 of surveyed companies reporting over $10 million in value from interconnection solutions. However, enterprises face challenges in adapting old IT architectures to support new growth strategies that rely heavily on interconnection across multiple locations and clouds. Direct, secure interconnection is presented as a solution to address issues like high latency, systems uptime, and cybersecurity risks in a way that public internet connections cannot.
Accenture 2017 Global Risk Study: Banking Key Trends Infographicaccenture
To keep pace in a decade of disruption, banking industry respondents in the Accenture 2017 Global Risk Management Study are investing in technology, integration and talent to drive value from their risk functions. View the top challenges impacting risk function effectiveness and how banks are responding.
Learn more about Banking results from the 2017 Global Risk Study: https://accntu.re/2jHhdS7
Accelerating enterprise innovation and transformation with 5G and Wi-Fi 6aakash malhotra
We are living in a hyper-connected era where the count of network devices has reached 29.3, three times more than the actual population. The next generation 5G and WiFi 6 are no longer long-lost dreams but are the reality that will transform the ways networks connect machines and people, offering better speed, higher data capacity, and location sensing. Be the part of the change and learn how 5G and WiFi 6 can accelerate enterprise innovation with the following PDF.
This study from the Ponemon Institute and Accenture reviews the economic impact of cyber attacks in financial services and shares insights on the security investments that make a difference in financial services. Read our Cost of Cyber Crime blog series, which takes a closer look at the results: https://accntu.re/2GrL8El
The document provides a summary of sessions from the OperationNext event hosted by Accenture. It includes summaries of 6 sessions in the Operation Track on topics like building an OT security program, OT security architecture with cloud, and incident response. It also summarizes 5 sessions in the Executive Track on topics like OT governance structure, next-gen cloud integration, priority investments and metrics, and negotiating risk, security, and spending. Each summary includes the session title, speakers, and 3 key takeaways. The document encourages reviewing the session notes and on-demand content and collaborating further.
Building More Value with Capital Markets - EPC Editionaccenture
1) Capital projects generate more value when companies share and analyze data effectively, but most struggle to do so.
2) A framework called "CAPSTONE" provides best practices for driving digital transformation and improving value from data, including appointing data-focused leadership, investing in data infrastructure, developing data-centric talent, and using incentive-based contracts.
3) Companies that implement CAPSTONE fully see up to 5.8% higher operating margins through more efficient project execution and data-driven decision making.
Accenture 2017 Global Risk Study: Japan Banking & Capital Markets Key Trends ...accenture
This Japan infographic is a supplement to the Global Risk Management Study Banking and Global Capital Markets reports and summary presentations. It highlights key trends data based on answers from the study’s Japan-based banking and capital markets respondents. Download the full Banking report (https://accntu.re/2jHhdS7) or Capital Markets report (https://accntu.re/2w54j1R).
The Accenture Security Index, based on Accenture's High Performance Security research, assesses performance across 33 cybersecurity capabilities within the Banking industry. It is intended to help banking leaders understand the effectiveness of their security measures. To learn more about Banking results, read our blog series: https://accntu.re/2vj59KC
Securing the Digital Economy: Reinventing the Internetaccenture
Securing the digital economy does not fall on the individual, but instead relies on the ability of leaders to work collectively to forge digital trust.
Accenture 2019 Global Risk Management Study Financial Services Summaryaccenture
The Accenture 2019 Global Risk Management Study is the sixth edition of our study first published in 2009. It identifies financial services risk leaders' top concerns, such as disruptive technology and data breaches, and recommends actions to take. Learn more about the study and download reports for financial services, banking, capital markets and insurance: https://accntu.re/34bS0RA
Smart Move: Emergent Technologies Make Their Mark on Public Serviceaccenture
Our research reveals that intelligent technologies are already playing a pivotal role in helping agencies achieve this mission – and expectations of future gains are high.
The document discusses how communications service providers (CSPs) are embedding technology into everyday life and society. It outlines five trends that CSPs must address: intelligent enterprise unleashed, extended reality, data veracity, frictionless business, and internet of thinking. The document advocates that CSPs redefine their social contract by defining how they will advance and protect society through the services they provide. It provides examples of how some CSPs are already engaging with social issues and partnering to benefit business and society.
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey conducted by Accenture between July and September 2020 with over 7,000 citizens who had received social services in the past two years and 660 executives across 10 countries. The survey found that demand for social services has increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing underlying weaknesses, and that citizens expect to use social services more in the future. Executives feel less prepared to address current and future challenges than before the pandemic. Three priorities for reshaping social services were identified: becoming more responsive, accessible, and embracing new technologies with human ingenuity.
Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2018accenture
Explore Accenture's Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 report, showcasing five health IT trends that are going to redefine how intelligent enterprises of the future will work.
Drones: The Insurance Industry's Next Game-Changer?Cognizant
Drones promise to be the next disruptive technology -- poised to dramatically alter how industry sectors, including property and casualty insurers, conduct business. Drones have the potential to streamline and reduce the cost of insurance-related processes, including claims adjustment, risk-engineering, post-catastrophe claims settlements and weeding out fraudulent agricultural claims.
Pandemic has taken a fair share of the toll on every economy, affecting millions of businesses across the globe. As organizations are adopting technology and innovation to fulfil their quest for growth, they must comprehend, the ghost of cyberattack will come to haunt them sooner or later. Cyber breaches will not only cause brand degradation, but also lead to loss of digital assets, and change in consumer behaviour. As a result, companies are considering corporate cyber insurance as a part of their cybersecurity strategies. Click on the link to read what cyber insurance is and why companies direly need it.
The document discusses organizations' experiences with GDPR compliance after the May 2018 deadline. It finds that many organizations are still dealing with residual risks and have uncovered more personal data than expected during their discovery processes. Specifically, organizations have struggled to fully comply with data deletion requests due to data being spread across systems without full lineage. The document advocates that organizations view GDPR not just as a compliance burden but as an opportunity to improve data governance, build customer trust, and enable digital expansion.
Organizations today are discovering new realities around the cloud and data center, IT supply chain management, the modern workplace and digital transformation. For the 2019 Insight Intelligent Technnology™ Index, we surveyed 400 IT professionals to assess how they’re optimizing technology to unlock these growth opportunities. Explore the key takeaways.
This document discusses collecting and processing client metrics. It describes common metrics like DomainLookup and TTFB. It recommends the PerformanceTiming API and libraries like timing.js to collect metrics. Custom metrics can be collected using performance.mark and performance.measure. StatsD and Graphite are recommended for sending metrics to servers. StatsD uses simple strings to represent metrics like "metric:value|type". Graphite stores numeric time-series data and Grafana can render graphs from it.
This document introduces React Native, which allows developers to build native mobile apps for iOS and Android from JavaScript. React Native uses React to construct mobile user interfaces and allows sharing of code across platforms. It renders native UI components rather than webviews, supports flexbox layout, and exposes platform APIs. Developers can build full-stack universal apps that share code between web and mobile using React Native and tools like Redux. It provides benefits like hot reloading, native performance, and the ability to add it incrementally to existing apps.
An Intense Overview of the React EcosystemRami Sayar
React has been named the front-end library to learn in 2016 however few people talk about the React without mentioning Flux (or Redux or React Native or Relay). In this talk, we will explore the ecosystem of tools and libraries that surround React. We will look at the various Flux implementations (including a short explanation of Flux) like Redux, at react-router, at some of the reactive database or reactive API libraries and finally at everyday tools and techniques that make the React developer happy. By the end of this talk, you will have a greater grasp of the ecosystem and leave with new tools in your developer arsenal.
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React Native, as a new way to develop mobile applications with little to no knowledge about native development, allowed us to go from nothing to a released mobile app in less than 3 months. This presentation will cover: Why did Nuxeo choose React Native for its new mobile application, what are the advantages for us and how did we work around: issues / limitations.
Brief introduction in to the most popular CMS's: WordPress, Joomla and Drupal that have established themselves as the leaders for content management systems. There’s no need to look for another CMS as those three are the most popular ones (great features, easy to manage, secure & free to use).
Este documento trata sobre la biodiversidad y la vida silvestre. Explica que la biodiversidad incluye la diversidad de especies, su variabilidad genética, los ecosistemas y los procesos ecológicos. También habla sobre la clasificación de reinos biológicos y los diferentes niveles de diversidad. Luego, define la vida silvestre e incluye plantas, animales y ecosistemas. Finalmente, discute las causas de extinción de especies, incluyendo la cacería excesiva y cómo ha llevado a
1. Modul ini membahas tiga topik utama yakni struktur pasar, pasar persaingan sempurna dan tidak sempurna, serta berbagai jenis pasar abstrak.
2. Ada dua jenis struktur pasar yaitu persaingan sempurna dan tidak sempurna, dengan ciri pasar persaingan sempurna adalah banyak perusahaan dan produk homogen.
3. Pasar tidak sempurna meliputi monopoli, oligopoli, dan lainny
Presentation: Engage.ug March 2016 by Keith Strickland
When building great Web applications that surface the contents of Notes databases Domino Designer can often get in the way of productivity. Many Notes developers are now expanding into the area of JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Ember, or Backbone In this session we will show you how to break that dependency on Domino Designer so that you can deploy applications outside an NSF but still consume the data from within an NSF.
Preparing for Major Disruptions in Digital Asset ManagementNuxeo
Nuxeo's guest speaker, Anjali Yakkundi of Forrester Research, Inc., discusses the latest trends in digital asset management (DAM) and how to select a DAM vendor.
1. The document describes the file structure and organization for a Sass-based CSS framework.
2. It outlines folders for base styles, components, helpers, layouts, pages, themes, and third-party vendors.
3. Individual files are created for specific elements or sections (e.g. buttons, navigation, header) and include comments explaining their purpose.
Το εγχειρίδιο Μάθηση και Διδασκαλία στο Cloud παρέχει πληροφορίες για μια καινοτόμο εκπαιδευτική εργασία που πραγματοποιήθηκε από 12 Ευρωπαϊκά σχολεία αγροτικών περιοχών, από Νηπιαγωγείο έως Λύκειο.
Συμμετοχή του ΤΕΕ Ειδικής Αγωγής Α΄ Βαθμίδας -(Ειδικό ΕΠΑΛ Σερρών) στον Διαγω...KESYPSERRON
Συμμετοχή του ΤΕΕ Ειδικής Αγωγής Α΄ Βαθμίδας -(Ειδικό ΕΠΑΛ Σερρών) στον Διαγωνισμό Επιχειρηματικότητας 2015-2016 με τη δημιουργία της επιχείρησης Παραδοσιακή Οικοτεχνία
Technolony Vision 2016 - Primacy Of People First In A Digital World - Vin Mal...Vin Malhotra
The document discusses emerging technologies and their impact on businesses over the next 3-5 years based on research by Accenture. It identifies 5 technology trends that will be essential for business success: 1) Intelligent Automation using AI to automate tasks, 2) Liquid Workforce to build a flexible workforce, 3) Platform Economy using platforms for business model innovation, 4) Predictable Disruption from digital ecosystems, and 5) Digital Trust to strengthen customer relationships through ethics and security. The research involved input from experts and a global survey of over 3,100 business and IT executives.
The document discusses the Accenture Technology Vision for 2015. It notes that businesses are now operating in a "digital business era" and a "We Economy" where companies can connect and collaborate at a global scale through digital technologies and ecosystems. Pioneering companies are making "big bets" by creating digital platforms and ecosystems that connect their business with customers, partners, devices and new markets. This allows them to tackle large opportunities and shape entire industries and experiences in new ways. The document examines examples like Home Depot, Philips, and Fiat creating digital ecosystems in areas like connected homes, healthcare, and automobiles.
On-switch: Applied Lessons on Moving up the Digital Maturity CurveCognizant
What separates digital beginners from leaders? No matter what your starting point is, our recent research sheds light on where and how much to invest, and the ROI and performance gains to expect.
Enterprise Mobility Applications: Addressing a Growing GapBlackBerry
This new report on enterprise mobility applications highlights the alarming gap between Central IT and line-of-business IT environments. Millennials in particular are showing signs of growing frustration with the devices and software tools available to support them in the workplace. Many are making their own mobility arrangements, through ‘shadow IT’, despite growing regulatory risk. The advent of the ‘Internet of Things’ will further exacerbate the situation as mobile staff seek access to real time data from their phones and tablets.
Our recent survey of over 100 financial service organizations, conducted by Forbes Insights in the UK and North America, indicates that despite current business and employee demand, enterprise mobile applications remain at a very early stage of maturity, with less than a quarter of employees eligible to access such facilities. The implications here are profound, given the need to support mobile working with appropriate tools in every sphere of corporate activity today.
Many employees complain that the only advance over the last ten years has been to ‘mobilize the laptop’. This merely emulates the traditional desktop environment outside the office. Set against this stark background of underperformance in the mobility area, Central IT appears to be preoccupied with legacy issues such as costly infrastructures and aging systems. Our survey reveals that despite having developed policies and tools to address enterprise mobility, Central IT has little visibility of what is actually going on within the lines of business or at the end user level.
Nor does it have the necessary resources currently to respond rapidly to the growing pressures for workplace mobility. External agencies appear to be stepping in to fill this gap, frequently circumventing Central IT. Mobility remains low on the Central IT agenda.
EO Briefing 2015 is structured in three chapters. The first chapter examines the impact of digital technologies, particularly the Internet of Things (IoT) on business. The IoT presents an array of challenges and new revenue possibilities but the question is which companies will be able to capitalise on this opportunity. This an especially crucial question as C-suite executives see competition rising sharply in 2015.
The document summarizes key findings from the BT CIO report 2016 regarding the changing role of the CIO. Some of the main points from the summary are:
- The three most disruptive technology trends driving change are cloud computing, mobility/collaboration, and data. A fifth of organizations describe themselves as completely cloud-centric.
- CIOs are playing a more central strategic role in the boardroom and are expected to drive innovation. Their skills must embrace faster-paced digital change.
- While security concerns still present challenges, the cloud is seen as an opportunity to improve security for many organizations. CIOs are measuring success against new digital-focused KPIs.
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This document discusses the findings of a survey on how businesses are transforming through adoption of digital technologies like cloud, mobile, social media, and big data. Key findings include:
- Over half of respondents said these technologies are already transforming their businesses, with impacts including improved customer service, increased productivity and revenues, and new business models and products.
- Mobile access is enabling new business scenarios by allowing employees to work anywhere and companies to innovate through new customer apps and services. Delta Air Lines is an example using mobile to sell more products in-flight and improve customer service.
- Cloud computing is driving business agility by providing flexible infrastructure and lower costs, enabling faster innovation and new services. Leading companies
VMware Business Agility and the True Economics of Cloud ComputingVMware
New groundbreaking global survey findings demonstrate
the true value of cloud computing to the business. While it is understood in the industry that cloud computing provides clear cost benefits, CIOs are having difficulty getting a true fix on the business value that cloud might offer beyond cost reduction. These survey results reveal a direct link between cloud computing and business agility—how business outcomes are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders.
The document discusses how digital technologies like cloud, mobile, social media, and big data are transforming businesses. A survey of over 500 executives found that these technologies allow companies to improve customer service, increase productivity, develop new products and services, and increase revenues. Mobile in particular enables new business scenarios, like apps that improve the fan experience for the Detroit Lions football team and allow Delta flight attendants to increase sales. Cloud computing provides flexibility and agility that allows for innovation. While security and data concerns remain challenges, leading companies are finding ways to leverage digital technologies for top-line growth and transformation.
Digital transformation-of-business-harvard-business-reviewJerry Chen
Business value of Strategy for enterprise organizations
A Harvard Business Review report - The Digital Transformation of Business – demonstrates how leading organizations are getting creative with cloud, mobile, social and big data. Understand how 537 enterprise executives are using megatrend technologies to drive transformational impact for their business, their customers and their employees.
89% of consumers switch to a competitor after a poor CX Abhishek Sood
89% of consumers switch to a competitor following a poor customer experience, according to an Oracle study. But how can you use digital technology to improve your customers' experience?
Uncover how several prominent businesses embraced digital technologies to retain customers and increase profits. For example, Domino's Pizza had a 23% growth in profit after it allowed customers to track their deliveries online.
Discover the 4 factors that can make a digital transformation project profitable and worthwhile.
New technology trend opportunities and challengesSaeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation is part of another presentation titled "Roles of ICT in Real Life Scenarios" which was presented during the International Conference on Next Generation Computing & Communication Technologies 2014 in Dubai. The presentation address the opportunities and challenges of the new technology forces: Cloud, Mobile, Social Media and Information and their impact of the traditional role of the IT.
Top 8 digital transformation trends shaping 2021run_frictionless
In a world that’s increasingly dependent on digital, IT’s role is more critical than ever. To meet rising demands, organizations are accelerating their digital transformation. This report identifies the top 8 technology trends that will face CIOs, IT leaders, and organizations in their digital transformation journey in 2021.
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- Faster growing small and midsize companies are further along in their digital transformations, with over half actively engaged. Effective use of technology to automate functions and optimize processes is associated with better performance.
- While many companies have deployed digital technologies like collaboration software and CRM, effectively coordinating and integrating these resources is important for progressing digital transformations. Successful companies continually invest in improving their use of digital technologies.
- Faster growing companies are more optimistic about the benefits of digital transformation for performance and competition, but also realize challenges in relying too much on data and losing personal customer relationships. Advanced business analytics that provide insights are seen as key to transformation success.
This document provides a summary of a study on how small and midsize enterprises are adapting to digital transformation. Some key findings include:
- Faster growing companies are further along in their digital transformation journey and see more benefits from new technologies.
- While most companies have implemented some digital technologies, effective coordination and use is important for success.
- Advanced business analytics and insights into external operations can help drive business success.
- Younger-led companies and those in North America tend to be more advanced in digital transformation.
The document recommends that digital transformation is an ongoing process, benefits come from integrating technologies into business processes, and tapping internal and external resources is important.
By 2030, IoT, data and connectivity have enabled an open data society where information is widely shared. Greater transparency from businesses and full traceability in supply chains has also been achieved. Digital technologies are improving health outcomes through personalized monitoring. New types of less material-intensive consumption have emerged, driven by experiential services and local fabrication of goods from recovered materials. Overall, the vision depicts a connected future where digital technologies support sustainability and prosperity.
IoT: Powering the Future of Business and Improving Everyday LifeCognizant
New survey shows IoT at scale is a critical path, but many companies struggle to realize value. See how 10 companies are overcoming these challenges and succeeding in the new normal.
The ecosystem equation collaboration in the connected economy @harvard biz @i...Diego Alberto Tamayo
The document discusses the shift to the connected economy, where value is created through technology-enabled connections between people, machines, and organizations. It finds that only 18% of surveyed organizations have significantly adopted connected economy business models, while over half recognize significant revenue is threatened by digital disruption. Connected economy leaders have realized stronger revenue growth and earn more from new products compared to laggards. Leaders also demonstrate greater senior leadership involvement in digital initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, skills development, and dedicated digital transition teams.
Harvard Business Review_The Ecosystem Equation - Collaboration in the Connect...Beth Taylor
The document discusses the shift to the connected economy, where value is created through technology-enabled connections between people, machines, and organizations. It finds that only 18% of surveyed organizations have significantly adopted connected economy business models, while over half recognize significant revenue is threatened by digital disruption. Connected economy leaders have realized stronger revenue growth and earn more from new products compared to laggards. Leaders also demonstrate greater senior leadership involvement in digital initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, skills development, and dedicated digital transition teams.
GDS Summit Keynote - manufacturing at software speed draftEquinix
Enterprises are still dealing with the long-lasting impacts of the
pandemic. While remote working, resilient digital supply chain, and
optimized omnichannel business have accelerated over the past
year, companies that have adopted a Digital-First strategy and
pivoted to speeding up their business transformation are thriving
and are no longer suffocated by these pandemic transformation
requirements. On the other hand, those who are still locked in an
old-fashioned architecture continue to struggle to meet these
requirements and ultimately risk their long-term business success.
By examining examples of Digital First initiatives and use cases, one
will discover how these manufacturing business leaders are
enhancing their competitiveness in the industry.
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Challenges with Data Center Synchronization and Options for Precise Synchroni...Equinix
Presentation by Ramki Ramakrishnan, Principal - Product, Research and Incubation Group at Equinix at ITSF 2020 (#ITSF2020) on the challenges with Data Center Synchronization and options for precise synchronization. Learn more by checking out our blog post on The Future of Precision Time as a Service - https://blog.equinix.com/
Equinix Women Leaders Network (EWLN) Asia-PacificEquinix
“It’s a world of freedom, safety and
authenticity, where every individual –
regardless of gender identity – is able to
pursue a life that is true to their talent, values
and goals. Labels and barriers will begin to
dissolve as we respectfully empower and
honor every single individual as unique,
valued and worthy.”
International Women's Day 2020 | Women at EquinixEquinix
This document contains quotes from women leaders at Equinix discussing gender equality and Equinix's efforts to advance women leaders. The women define a gender equal world as one with equal opportunities regardless of gender. They describe how the Equinix Women Leaders Network (EWLN) has helped them develop confidence and leadership skills. Advancing women leaders is seen as important for business success and inclusion. Equinix promotes gender parity through initiatives like EWLN, leadership training, and diversity programs led by the CEO.
Getting “Edge-y” with the Internet of ThingsEquinix
Integrated IoT capabilities accelerate product and service development and time to market, while optimizing asset data delivery and workflow processes. The intelligence gathered from distributed IoT devices and analyzed in real time enables greater operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Digital transformation requires addressing three key factors: speed, volume, and gravity. An Interconnection Oriented Architecture (IOA) strategy involves building distributed hybrid/multicloud deployments within proximity to users, data, and clouds. This is done in four steps: 1) placing local network hubs, 2) connecting clouds over private interconnection, 3) deploying security controls, and 4) integrating data for cloud adjacency and residency. This IOA strategy solves for latency, volume, agility, compliance, and data exchange needs of the digital enterprise.
5 IT Predictions for Digital Business in 2019Equinix
Read our blog on the 5 IT Predictions for Digital Business in 2019: https://eqix.it/ITPredictions2019
While digital transformation has the potential to dramatically accelerate long-term business performance, the truth is that we are deep into the digital awkward years. Though the promise of digital is full of new possibilities, most companies are currently experiencing the growing pains of hybrid IT complexity.
Today’s businesses see digital technologies that need to be seamlessly integrated with legacy IT infrastructures to optimize business processes, agility and scale. They anticipate an increasing number of connected-devices at the edge generating mountains of data that will expand their organization’s threat landscape, while data security and compliance requirements continue to increase.
We are working with our customers around the globe to build the data center of the future, blazing the trail for next-generation interconnection and innovation, including emerging security, data and application infrastructure services. And as business and technology leaders move closer to another year of high stakes digital transformations and the big IT decisions that power them, we’re taking a closer look at the technologies that will make the biggest digital business impact in 2019.
Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ - Flexible, on-demand global interconnectionEquinix
Learn about the trends shaping the digital future and how IT can prepare for these demands, why Interconnection and ECX Fabric can help address IT needs on a global scale, what the most common use cases for ECX Fabric are, and how customers leverage ECX Fabric and an interconnection strategy for success.
https://www.equinix.com/resources/webinars/ecx-fabric-webinar/
- Trends shaping the digital future and how IT can prepare for these demands
- Why Interconnection and ECX Fabric can help address IT needs on a global scale
- The most common use cases for ECX Fabric
- How customers leverage ECX Fabric and an interconnection strategy for success
Gain real-time access to environmental and operating information relevant to your IBX footprint as if those cages were all in-house. Available through the Equinix Customer Portal, IBX SmartView helps you maintain your IBX operations and deployments with alerts and notifications, while enhancing long-term planning with customizable reports.
The Interconnection Index Volume 2: Breaking Down Interconnection in Latin Am...Equinix
The document discusses the Global Interconnection Index (GXI) volume 2, which tracks the growth of interconnection bandwidth usage globally and in Latin America. It projects that interconnection bandwidth in Latin America will grow at a 59% compound annual growth rate to over 750 terabits by 2021. Industries like energy/utilities, government/education, and healthcare are projected to have the fastest interconnection bandwidth growth rates in Latin America between 2021. The GXI provides insights into how companies can use interconnection to integrate distributed infrastructure and stay competitive in an increasingly digital business environment.
The Interconnection Index Volume 2: Breaking Down Interconnection in Asia-Pac...Equinix
The document discusses the Global Interconnection Index (GXI) from Equinix, which tracks the growth of digital infrastructure and interconnection bandwidth usage. The GXI projects that interconnection bandwidth in Asia Pacific will grow at a 51% compound annual growth rate to 2,220 terabits per second by 2021. Several major Asia Pacific markets like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore are highlighted as having high interconnection bandwidth volumes and growth rates. Industries like energy/utility, banking/insurance, and healthcare are projected to be the fastest growing in interconnection bandwidth consumption in Asia Pacific through 2021.
The Interconnection Index Volume 2: Breaking Down Interconnection in the Unit...Equinix
The story the Global Interconnection Index (GXI) Volume 2 tells about the United States is one of a country with an unmatched history in the development and expansion of Interconnection, but with plenty of growth and innovation still ahead.
The U.S. is the most mature region in the world for digital business, according to the GXI, which analyzes global Interconnection – the direct and private traffic exchange between businesses. The annual report by Equinix estimates that by 2021, the U.S. will contribute 40% of the global installed Interconnection Bandwidth – the total capacity provisioned to privately and directly exchange traffic with a diverse set of participants at distributed IT exchange points. That’s by far the highest share of worldwide Interconnection Bandwidth, an essential enabler of digital business expansion.
Equinix and IDC Webinar - Trends Transforming Digital ConnectivityEquinix
This document discusses trends transforming digital connectivity and interconnection strategies. It summarizes research finding that interconnection bandwidth is expected to outpace internet and MPLS traffic growth. Interconnection enables organizations to more easily work together across networks, financial services, cloud computing, and content/digital media. The document then discusses how Equinix's interconnection services like ECX Fabric can help enterprises securely connect to multiple cloud services either locally or remotely. It also discusses how these services can help enterprises connect their own distributed infrastructure and ensure business continuity. Finally, it discusses how these services provide advantages to service providers by allowing them to access customers, connect to clouds in more metros, and leverage the largest interconnected ecosystem.
Maximize the Capabilities of Oracle® Golden Gate: Replicate Data Bi-Direction...Equinix
Maximize the Capabilities of Oracle® GoldenGate: Replicate Data Bi-Directionally across Data Centers with Equinix. Read our blog post here: https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2018/06/27/maximize-the-capabilities-of-oracle-goldengate/
The potential of IoT-enabled maintenance for businesses across industries such as Transport, Healthcare, Construction or Telecommunication is significant. From lower costs and lower risks to increased customer satisfaction, this infopaper takes a look at this upcoming technological trend.
Equinix Women's Leadership Network Celebrates International Women's Day 2018Equinix
The Equinix Women's Leadership Network (EWLN) is celebrating International Women's Day 2018 (#IWD2018) by asking a few of our leaders, "What Makes Women at Equinix Special?".
The Equinix Women Leaders’ Network (EWLN) is a resource group that offers personal growth, visibility and networking opportunities. Our values are centered around the core themes of promoting, connecting and empowering our community of Equinix women, no matter where they are based – New York, London, Tokyo or Rio. We run a variety of events and initiatives to drive a meaningful dialogue, build leadership skills, have a sense of purpose at work and make a difference to our communities. All this, while having fun and building strong peer connections
Optimizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through Interconnection Equinix
This document discusses how interconnecting to cloud services through Equinix can optimize performance and lower costs compared to using the public internet. It provides examples of how enterprises have benefited from using Equinix's interconnection platform to access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through direct, private connections with higher bandwidth and lower latency than internet/VPN options. The document also outlines Equinix's global data center footprint and partnership with Oracle to enable fast, reliable interconnection to OCI globally.
The IDC and Equinix Webinar - 2018 - The Year of the Intelligence Ready Digit...Equinix
Equinix, together with IDC, Microsoft and Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), help reveal the usefulness of the intelligent edge and unpack the key criteria and success factors to effectively compete in an era of integrated, dynamic and real-time business models.
Blockchain technology is transforming industries and reshaping the way we conduct business, manage data, and secure transactions. Whether you're new to blockchain or looking to deepen your knowledge, our guidebook, "Blockchain for Dummies", is your ultimate resource.
How Social Media Hackers Help You to See Your Wife's Message.pdfHackersList
In the modern digital era, social media platforms have become integral to our daily lives. These platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, offer countless ways to connect, share, and communicate.
UiPath Community Day Kraków: Devs4Devs ConferenceUiPathCommunity
We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner!
We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too!
Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇
08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30')
09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10')
Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath
Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner
09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30')
Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA
Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25')
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1. THE ENTERPRISE OF THE FUTURE:
UNLEASHING THE
INTERCONNECTED
ENTERPRISE
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Equinix.com
2. Executive Summary 3
The Interconnected Era Is Here 5
Enterprise Growth Agenda Fueling
Interconnection Appetite 7
New IT Challenges Battling
Old IT Architectures 8
Solving Business Problems
Through Interconnection 10
Lessons Learned
From Interconnection 13
The Interconnected
Enterprise Advantage 14
Conclusion15
About Equinix 16
The Equinix Interconnection
Oriented Architecture™ 17
3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | 3
Executive Summary
1. EMC, Digital Universe, 2014
IN AN ERA OF RAPID CHANGE, THE MOST
RADICAL REINVENTION OF INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY IS IMMINENT AS THE NUMBER
OF INTERCONNECTED ENTERPRISES IS SET TO
MORE THAN DOUBLE TO 84% BY 2017. MORE
THAN A THIRD OF ENTERPRISES SURVEYED
HAVE REALIZED OVER $10 MILLION IN VALUE.
Our world is increasingly interconnected.
By 2020, the digital universe will reach 44 zettabytes, meaning there will be
nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the universe.1
In this new social
and mobile-enabled landscape, we are in a constant state of cloud-fueled
collaboration and communication. Whether born-digital millennials or reinvented
baby boomers, we are now all “omnichannel” consumers who consider anytime,
anywhere, any device connectivity the norm.
This sweeping change is radically reinventing the face of the enterprise,
altering how work gets done, how competitive advantage is forged and how
revenue is generated.
In this new interconnected era, organizations can’t go it alone when it comes to
creating value. They must rely on each other – and interconnection – to succeed.
And they need an interconnected IT strategy to position their enterprises for growth.
Today’s enterprise-grade interconnection is much different from the connectivity
of yesterday. Modern interconnection establishes direct and secure, physical
or virtual connections between an enterprise and its partners, customers and
employees. This new level of interconnection has become essential to market
differentiation and growth, and a recent Enterprise of the Future survey of
1,000 IT decision-makers by Equinix revealed that businesses worldwide have
developed a vast and accelerating business appetite for it.
Report Snapshot
• With revenue growth
emerging as a top IT priority,
3-in-5 businesses believe
establishing direct and secure
interconnections with their
employees, partners and
customers is “very important”
to their ability to compete.
• The number of interconnected
enterprises is set to more
than double from 38% to 84%
globally by 2017.
• The benefits of interconnection
are real and quantifiable
– more than 1/3 of survey
respondents report greater
than $10M in value created.
4. 10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
The Global Interconnection Surge
The number of interconnected enterprises
will double globally by 2017.
2015 2017
38%
84%
0%
4 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Among the key survey findings:
• Revenue growth is the enterprise’s top priority, and the top IT strategies
to drive growth are all heavily interconnection-dependent.
• 3-in-5 businesses believe interconnection is “very important” to their ability
to compete.
• The number of interconnected enterprises worldwide is set to more than
double by 2017 – increasing from 38% to 84%.
• The benefits of interconnection are real and quantifiable – more than 1/3 of
survey respondents who have already deployed interconnection solutions
report greater than $10M in value created, with 58% reporting this value
came from increased revenue opportunities.
The survey results demonstrate that not only do enterprises understand the value
of an interconnected IT strategy, they are aggressively pursuing it.
In the following Enterprise of the Future report, we examine the market trends,
customer desires and capabilities that are combining to lead to a profound
transformation in enterprise IT.
5. INTERCONNECTED ERA
CONNECTED ERA
NETWORK ERA
COMPUTING ERA
We
Are
Here
DIGITAL ECONOMY
Companies gain advantage through
information exchange, leveraging
interoperable platforms for data
transmission
Businesses reap greater
productivity advantages through
computing power, inspiring
proprietary computing “platforms”
Companies benefit from anytime/
anywhere information access and
business productivity
Companies forge advantage by
collaborating in communities
with other enterprises via secure,
reliable and instant connections
among many participants
THE INTERCONNECTED ERA IS HERE | 5
Don Tapscott’s landmark 1995 book, “The Digital Economy: Promise
and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence,” described an
economy built on digital technologies that was “not simply about
the networking of technology, but about the networking of humans
through technology.”
Today, humans are more networked than ever. In the past 30 years,
the digital economy that Tapscott defined in those early days has since
moved through four distinct eras, propelled and accelerated at each stage
by advances in connectivity. We are now in the interconnected era.
This period is dominated by the need for a level of interconnection
that delivers instant collaboration between and within dense industry
ecosystems consisting of partners, employees, customers and data
sources. This direct and secure interconnection spans geographies to
accelerate business performance and create growth.
The challenge – and opportunity – of the interconnected era is that
businesses now have the ability to electronically collaborate at a
speed, depth and geographic range that’s never before been possible.
But only an “interconnected enterprise” can truly gain the commercial
advantages this delivers.
An interconnected enterprise puts interconnection at the center of
its IT strategy. It can directly and securely connect its employees,
partners and customers to what they need, in the right context, using
whatever devices, channels or services they prefer. The interconnected
enterprise can react in real time, adapt quickly to change, and discover
new ways to grow within the network of digital ecosystems with which it
continuously interacts.
An interconnected enterprise sees the promise of the interconnected
era and implements an IT architecture that’s agile, flexible, secure and
robust enough to take advantage of it.
The Interconnected Era Is Here
6. Extremely Familiar/Very Familiar
Somewhat Familiar
Not Very Familiar
Interconnection Familiarity
75%
21%
4%
75% of the global businesses surveyed were “extremely” or
“very” familiar with interconnection.
6 | THE INTERCONNECTED ERA IS HERE
The Enterprise of the Future survey explored the priorities and perspectives
of the IT leaders who are shaping the interconnected era, including CIOs, CTOs,
chief architects and network and application vice presidents across 14 countries.
Global awareness of interconnection, as defined above, was strong across the
board among survey respondents, with 75% of global businesses “extremely” or
“very” familiar with it.
In the 451 Research report “Interconnection 101,” analyst Jim Davis said the
demand for interconnection is only increasing worldwide.
“With the rise of services that depend on network speed and reliability, we
believe the demand for interconnection facilities will continue to grow,
particularly globally and in markets outside the top 10 in the U.S. as content
pushes further to the edge of the Internet,” Davis said.
7. Revenue growth
Employee productivity
Fast execution
Cost reduction
IT Strategy Priorities
40%
23%
19%
18%
40% of enterprises say revenue growth is their top IT strategy priority,
with 3-in-5 companies citing interconnection as “very important” to
their ability to compete.
ENTERPRISE GROWTH AGENDA FUELING INTERCONNECTION APPETITE | 7
The survey uncovered a diversity of views, but
there was no doubt about the top strategic goal
of enterprises worldwide. Respondents in 12 of
the 14 regions surveyed ranked revenue growth
as their most important IT priority, with employee
productivity a distant though significant second
at 23%. The findings underscore a broader shift
in attitudes about IT’s increasing role in driving
revenue growth. In a McKinsey Company
survey of executives, 29% of respondents said
they expected IT-enabled business innovation
to account for more than half of their company’s
earnings growth from 2012-2017, up from 18%
two years earlier.2
When IT leaders were asked how they
were planning to spur revenue growth,
their top strategies were all dependent
on interconnection.
• The No. 1 strategy for revenue growth, according to nearly 69% of
respondents, is deploying infrastructures to support new product offerings.
• The second-most essential strategy, as indicated by 68% of respondents,
is creating new channels or systems of engagement between the enterprise
and its customers, partners and employees.
• Deploying infrastructures in new geographies was the third-highest ranked
revenue-generating strategy, as identified by 55% of respondents.
• Another key strategy – cited by 54% of the respondents – is embedding or
distributing intelligence (analytics, data, content) across business processes,
regions or office locations to gain greater customer insights and make faster,
more accurate business decisions.
With these interconnection-reliant growth strategies topping the enterprise “to do”
list, it’s no surprise that 3-in-5 businesses surveyed believe interconnection
is “very important” to their company’s ability to compete.
As interconnection becomes a prerequisite for success, businesses are mobilizing
to become more interconnected. The survey indicates that interconnection-driven
enterprise transformation is imminent, with the number of interconnected enterprises
set to more than double from 38% to 84% globally by 2017.
Enterprise Growth Agenda
Fueling Interconnection Appetite
2. McKinsey Company, 2013
8. 8 | NEW IT CHALLENGES BATTLING OLD IT ARCHITECTURES
Even as companies increasingly turn toward direct and secure interconnection,
they face significant obstacles adapting old systems to a new world. Today, there
are more users, more devices, more locations and more data than ever, and
everyone needs everything in real time. The following statistics illustrate how the
digital enterprise is more dispersed, connected and cloud-dependent than ever:
• 75% of enterprise employees reside in locations other than the
corporate headquarters.3
• 82% of enterprises report a multi-cloud strategy.4
The problem is that existing, highly centralized IT architectures, which are often
contained in on-premise enterprise data centers, are struggling to scale to
meet the growing numbers of dispersed users with which they interact. These
complications were widely acknowledged by survey respondents, with 51%
calling siloed business and IT architectures a “very important” barrier to their
company’s IT agenda.
But even as high-quality connectivity becomes harder to deliver, it’s no less of a
business imperative. A positive user experience is considered “very important”
to 53% of survey respondents, while connecting more locations with more speed
is very important to 51% of respondents. The challenge of delivering all this is
compounded by the crumbling of old IT perimeters as the cloud pulls enterprise IT
service delivery off-premise, out to the edge of the corporate network, and blurs
organizational boundaries.
3. Virtela, 2014
4. RightScale, State of the Cloud Report, 2015
New IT Challenges
Battling Old IT
Architectures
9. NEW IT CHALLENGES BATTLING OLD IT ARCHITECTURES | 9
As we approach a tipping point where business workloads will exceed IT’s
capacity to support them, the Enterprise of the Future survey revealed that
many of the infrastructure obstacles identified as “most important” by IT leaders
are interconnection-centric:
• Systems uptime (20% of the respondents)
Centralized IT can mean a single point of failure, increasing the risk that
corporate data center downtime can have broader network effects and
decrease systems uptime.
• Cost to scale (17% of the respondents)
Centralized IT increases cost to scale because all communications must be
backhauled through the corporate data center, robbing the enterprise of the
ability to get closer to the edge where there are high concentrations of users,
data and applications. Proximate connectivity lowers the cost of directly
connecting users to each other and the data and applications they require,
especially if they are locally accessing those resources and services via
the cloud.
• High latency (9% of the respondents)
Physics dictates that the only sure way to decrease latency is to shorten the
distance between enterprise and end user, but a network infrastructure that’s
centered on-premise is relatively immobile.
The more these trends take hold, the more direct and secure interconnection will
become a necessity, not an option. Unfortunately, interconnection via the public
Internet isn’t good enough.
Speaking to the growing need for interconnection, GE’s Cloud CTO Lance
Weaver commented, “Applications, employees and data are rapidly moving
outside the traditional borders of the data center, but the expectations for a
secure, frictionless and high-performance experience are higher than ever.
You can’t meet those expectations without a level of interconnection that’s just
not available over the public Internet alone.”
Today’s enterprise-grade interconnection must be fast and distributed to the
edge, and close to high concentrations of users to meet increasing performance,
security and compliance demands. It must be agile enough to scale up or down
as workloads change. It must remove the security risks that get in the way of
exceptional performance and on-demand responsiveness. At the same time,
interconnection must encompass multiple network and cloud services while
expanding computing, application and analytics capabilities.
Only private and distributed interconnection can deliver all that. The Internet
simply can’t.
10. 10 | SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS THROUGH INTERCONNECTION
• Greater interconnection enabled higher systems uptime (supporting
99.9999% on average), with 15% fewer network incidents and outages,
leading to reduced labor costs.
• Major cost reductions were realized by migrating to a multi-cloud
interconnection strategy to deploy and scale applications with lower-cost
cloud service providers, versus running them internally.
• Increased interconnection contributed to a 42% average reduction in latency
and 40% reduction in bandwidth costs, due to more proximate interconnectivity
between the organization and its employees, partners and customers.
5. Forrester Research, The Total Economic Impact (TM) of Equinix Interconnection Solutions, 2015.
Solving Business
Problems Through
Interconnection
A Forrester study, “The Total Economic Impact (TEI)™ of Equinix Interconnection
Solutions,”5
offered evidence of the benefits of direct interconnection.
11. 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Importance of Industry/Technology Trends
in Considering IT Infrastructure Transformation
Cyber-Security
Sustainability
Big Data
Data Sovereignty
Hybrid Cloud/Cloud
Mobile
Software-Defined Networks
Internet of Things
Online Advertising
Cyber-security could drive 64% of organizations to consider
re-architecting their IT infrastructures over the next 12 months.
SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS THROUGH INTERCONNECTION | 11
As Forrester pointed out in its report, being able to locally peer with cloud providers
through secure, direct interconnections and get out at the edge capabilities to
access and integrate multiple clouds enables organizations to provision cloud
services quickly and provide an improved end-user experience. The Enterprise of
the Future survey findings validated the importance of accessing multiple cloud
services in today’s enterprises, with the vast majority seeing this as a critical need
to address within five years. The survey showed that nearly half of the respondents
are currently pursuing a multi-cloud strategy and by 2020, 86% of those companies
will have deployed multiple clouds across multiple locations.
Direct and secure interconnection also significantly eases cyber-security
concerns, which 64% of Enterprise of the Future survey respondents reported
could drive them to consider re-architecting their IT infrastructure over the next
12 months. Cyber-security was by far the biggest disruptive trend cited.
Reducing risk, in general, was a major priority of survey respondents, with
3-in-5 saying that minimizing exposure and improving security was a “very
important” business challenge and 1-in-4 calling it the single most important.
They cited vulnerabilities in cloud and mobile architectures as areas of particular
concern, with 55% considering this a “very important” barrier to their IT agenda.
Maintaining data sovereignty was also a source of apprehension, with 50% of
respondents citing it as a key barrier to achieving their IT priorities.
Direct interconnection is more secure than the public Internet and lowers a
company’s risk profile in ways that meet the specific concerns expressed in the
survey. It shrinks the “attack surface,” reducing the number of hops required to
interconnect locations and closing off attack points. Direct interconnections also
bypass the public Internet, eliminating vulnerabilities between cloud and mobile
providers and their partners. And direct interconnection allows enterprises to
maintain data within geographic borders near their partners and users, keeping
it compliant, safe and under control.
12. Revenue Opportunities
Cost Savings
Interconnection Value in
Revenue Opportunities and Cost Savings
58%
42%
37% of companies with interconnection solutions report $10M+
in value created.
12 | SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS THROUGH INTERCONNECTION
The Economics of Interconnection
Direct and secure Interconnection also has a significant positive financial impact
on the enterprise. The Enterprise of the Future survey showed that more than a
third (37%) of businesses that have deployed interconnection solutions reported
at least $10 million in value created. Revenue opportunities accounted for the
bulk of the value creation at 58%, while the other 42% of respondents attributed
the value of interconnection to cost savings.
The Forrester TEI study backed up the bottom-line value of interconnection. It
found that interconnection delivers a 300% return on investment based on the
accumulated benefits of interconnection solutions.
13. Reduce risks, improve security
and minimize exposure
Deliver a more positive quality
of experience to users
Connect more physical locations
with greater speed
Reduce unit costs of workloads
Increase application performance
Gain greater scalability and agility
Have Deployed
Interconnection
Not Yet Addressing
or Working with
a Partner
Difference
(—)
71%
65%
65%
65%
71%
61%
50%
49%
51%
53%
60%
54%
21%
16%
14%
12%
11%
7%
The Importance of Business Challenges and Opportunities
LESSONS LEARNED FROM INTERCONNECTION | 13
As enterprises develop their ability to connect,
communicate and collaborate with customers,
partners and employees, their challenges,
opportunities and perspectives change. This is
evident in the Enterprise of the Future survey
results, which showed a striking difference
between the impact traditional enterprises
anticipate interconnection can have on their
top business priorities, versus the impact
interconnected enterprises expect based on
their experiences.
The chart to the right shows the importance that
the enterprises surveyed put on various business
challenges/opportunities. Across every single one
of them, companies who have not yet deployed
interconnection solutions have much lower expectations for the strategic
role interconnection can play in achieving their highest priority business
goals, versus interconnected enterprises that are already experiencing
the benefits firsthand.
The greatest difference can be seen on the issue enterprises identified
as their biggest concern: security. For those companies who had yet to
deploy interconnection, only 50% ranked “reduce risks, improve security and
minimize exposure” as a reason to explore interconnection, whereas 71% of the
interconnected enterprises ranked security as a key interconnection driver. These
differences indicate that enterprises that have yet to become interconnected may
be underestimating the true value interconnection can provide in addressing risk
and security concerns, compared to interconnected enterprises, where the security
of direct interconnection is better understood.
“Both near-term and long-term trends point toward the use of interconnection as a
networking strategy that helps address the security and performance problems of
today’s enterprise network while opening up new possibilities for architecting the
digital enterprise of the future,” said Jim Davis of 451 Research.6
Delivering a more positive quality of experience to users was another key
area where there was a significant difference in perceived importance by
interconnected and non-interconnected enterprises. Once again, this indicates
that interconnected enterprises have a stronger appreciation for what is possible
when interconnection is deployed for strategic advantage.
Lessons Learned From
Interconnection
6. 451 Research, Meet Me, Meet Me Not: What Enterprises Need to Know about
Datacenter Networking to Make the most of Their Cloud Strategy, 2015.
14. 14 | THE INTERCONNECTED ENTERPRISE ADVANTAGE
The Interconnected
Enterprise Advantage
There are numerous examples of how businesses have benefited from becoming
interconnected enterprises:
Interconnecting People: A global consulting, engineering, construction and
operations firm wanted to collaborate with partners in remote time zones to
continue project work 24 hours a day. The company was able to connect to nine
strategically located sites throughout EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific and
harness the hybrid cloud to achieve access to multi-cloud services. This upgrade
from its previous network and enterprise infrastructure allowed it to deliver a
superior user experience across its partner and employee applications and ramp
up and scale new office locations quickly and securely. The company also expects
to save more than $500,000 annually.
Interconnecting Locations: A Fortune 500 financial services firm with a
nationwide network of employees, partners and customers needed to deliver its
end users to its applications as quickly and securely as possible. But legacy
enterprise IT was inhibiting the anywhere, anytime, any device connectivity its
end users expected, and the Internet and private network bandwidth needed to
meet its customers’ demands was expensive and difficult to sustain. The firm
began to deploy its IT closer to end users in distributed interconnection hubs that
delivered direct and secure connectivity. The result: major improvements in
network efficiency, performance and costs, including decreases of up to 45% in
Internet access costs and up to 30% in MPLS bandwidth costs.
Interconnecting Clouds: In a move to better focus on its core business and
more efficiently scale the analytics essential to its offering, a global, multimedia
weather-related news and data network wanted to migrate as many IT services
as possible to the cloud. The network accessed multiple cloud providers via
high-quality interconnections within globally distributed colocations to quickly
deliver business-critical IT services to users and real-time analytics services to
customers worldwide. Scaling analytics became faster, easier and more cost-
effective, while IT unit costs dropped significantly. The company has now moved
80% of its computing infrastructure into the public cloud space.
Interconnecting Data: With a goal to provide more efficient, quality patient care, a
major healthcare software provider needed to connect hospitals and clinics
to its hosted applications quickly and reliably so it could uncover better insights
from patient data. The organization deployed its applications in multiple global
data centers, reducing latency to its dispersed clinics and improving application
performance – and ultimately patient knowledge – for thousands of doctors,
nurses and other healthcare providers.
15. CONCLUSION | 15
Traditional enterprise IT is not built to compete in the interconnected era.
Existing architectures are highly centralized and can’t scale to meet the
increasingly mobile enterprise end user. Without fundamental change,
businesses will not be able to compete. This reality is forcing a broad IT
rethink as enterprises move direct and secure interconnection into their
strategic center.
The Enterprise of the Future survey revealed that businesses worldwide are
moving quickly to become interconnected enterprises, and they are seeing
bottom-line benefits. More than a third of those companies reported at
least $10 million in combined revenue growth and cost savings. With 84%
of enterprises intending to be interconnected by 2017, more than double the
number of interconnected enterprises today, we are on the precipice of
a massive interconnection-led reinvention of enterprise IT.
Conclusion
16. 16 | ABOUT EQUINIX
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world’s leading
businesses to their customers, employees and partners
inside the most interconnected data centers. In 33 markets
across five continents, Equinix is where companies come
together to realize new opportunities and accelerate
their business, IT and cloud strategies. As the global
interconnection platform for the world’s leading businesses,
Equinix speeds the path to the interconnected enterprise.
An interconnected enterprise directly and securely connects
its employees, partners and customers to what they need, in
the right context, using the devices, channels and services
they prefer. This powerful level of direct interconnection
empowers enterprises to react in real time, adapt quickly to
change and leverage digital ecosystems to create new value
and growth.
Equinix enables the interconnected enterprise by bringing
together buyers and sellers, suppliers and manufacturers,
and clouds and enterprises so they can meet under one
roof at Equinix. More than 6,250 customers are inside
Equinix’s 100+ global data centers on five continents in 33
metro markets, including 1,100+ networks and 1,250+ cloud,
IT service providers and systems integrators. The level of
direct and secure connectivity interconnected enterprises
require is readily available inside Equinix, whether a
company needs to connect across the aisle or across
the world.
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17. Business expansion, ubiquitous user access and the
sourcing of external business and IT services are forcing
enterprises to have more points of engagement with
more end users across an ever-widening physical and
logical footprint. Existing IT architectures were not built to
support this level of dynamic engagement and distributed
coverage. In this new world, implementing an enterprise
interconnection strategy is critical, and it has real impact.
A Forrester study on the enterprise value of interconnection
estimated a 300% return on investment, payback of that
investment within 4.2 months and a 40% average reduction
in latency.
Executing an interconnection strategy requires an
Interconnection Oriented Architecture™
. An Interconnection
Oriented Architecture integrates the physical and virtual
worlds where they meet, shifting the fundamental
delivery architecture of IT from siloed and centralized to
internetworked and colocated. Equinix’s interconnection
platform provides the critical building blocks needed to
implement an Interconnection Oriented Architecture across
a global infrastructure with unmatched ecosystem density
and vendor neutrality.
A transformative approach to interconnecting people,
locations, clouds and data, Equinix’s Interconnection Oriented
Architecture equips enterprises to meet the ever-growing
need to increase speed, scale, performance, choice and
security while lowering costs. It is a critical foundation for
the interconnected enterprise as it enables businesses to
be as dispersed, flexible and adaptable as their end users.
This dramatically increases an organization’s capacity
to grow, engage important audiences, exploit a market
of innovative partners and create new value more quickly.
Leading enterprises worldwide have implemented Equinix’s
Interconnection Oriented Architecture and achieved
significant value in both revenue growth and cost savings.
The Equinix Interconnection Oriented Architecture™
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