Now that the technology sector as a whole is becoming increasingly user friendly, transparent and hands on, it makes sense for colocation data centers to offer a higher level of insight and transparency into their clients’ individual environments.

Location-based services (LBS) show promise as a budding customer-centric mobility solution in some early adopting verticals such as retail, hospitality, and large public venues. Such services enable businesses to better understand their customer base through analytics as well as offer targeted, context-based communications including promotions and remote assistance. This IDC white paper explores the burgeoning LBS market, highlighting custom research conducted by IDC in March and April 2014; surveys were fielded to both IT and line-of-business (LOB) decision makers in select verticals and market segments. In this white paper, IDC analyzes the data and explores the attitudes surrounding LBS adoption in the context of broader technology trends.

Location-based services (LBS) show promise as a budding customer-centric mobility solution in some early adopting verticals such as retail, hospitality, and large public venues. Such services enable businesses to better understand their customer base through analytics as well as offer targeted, context-based communications including promotions and remote assistance. This IDC white paper explores the burgeoning LBS market, highlighting custom research conducted by IDC in March and April 2014; surveys were fielded to both IT and line-of-business (LOB) decision makers in select verticals and market segments. In this white paper, IDC analyzes the data and explores the attitudes surrounding LBS adoption in the context of broader technology trends.

Location-based services (LBS) show promise as a budding customer-centric mobility solution in some early adopting verticals such as retail, hospitality, and large public venues. Such services enable businesses to better understand their customer base through analytics as well as offer targeted, context-based communications including promotions and remote assistance. This IDC white paper explores the burgeoning LBS market, highlighting custom research conducted by IDC in March and April 2014; surveys were fielded to both IT and line-of-business (LOB) decision makers in select verticals and market segments. In this white paper, IDC analyzes the data and explores the attitudes surrounding LBS adoption in the context of broader technology trends.

Read, “IEX Builds a New Class of Trading Venue Using a Range of Managed Data Center Services” now and discover how IEX partnered with CenturyLink to break the mold with its new trading system.

Mobile devices are streaming millions of location data points in real-time. These data points are extremely valuable in their own right because the very apps that help generate data can also be used to act on insights and deliver relevant messages. Download these insights and examples to turn mobile data into actions.

This white paper explores technologies and trends that are changing the colocation landscape and providing valuable benefits to businesses.

Digital Realty’s core function is to provide the power, cooling, and space required for businesses to operate, grow and expand internationally in the internet age.

This colocation buyer’s guide includes a checklist of important factors to consider before choosing a provider, along with buying criteria to help you make the best decision for your infrastructure needs.

Download this white paper to learn how big internet companies are using colocation to grow their businesses.

In today’s on-demand economy, speed and flexibility are critical. The modern workforce uses multiple devices, expecting them to work seamlessly from any location, at any time. They want to communicate in real time and must have easy access to the data and productivity tools they need to do their jobs well. Office 365 harnesses the power of the cloud to improve the capabilities of the familiar Microsoft Office suite to meet these expectations. It’s a robust productivity toolbox that helps companies transform the way they engage, serve and sell to customers.

As enterprises large and small shift their information to the cloud, an explosion of SaaS tools are making it easier than ever for employees to collaborate and innovate. Much of this sharing is being done across time zones and physical locations, by workers who are telecommuting, working in shared or public spaces, and from open networks. Information is stored on central, third-party servers that are accessible across the company and the world by anyone with an internet connection. As a result, online security is increasingly being pushed to the forefront as a major corporate expense. Yet, 89% of the global information workforce lack clarity on how security applies to the cloud. “Data is suddenly everywhere, and so are the number of people, access points and administrators who can control – or worse, copy – the data." Please download the white paper to learn more.

Nobody can afford to lose data. But managing the backup and recovery of data and services in far-flung locations can present many logistical and technology challenges that add complexity, expense, and risk. A new branch converged infrastructure approach allows IT to project virtual servers and data to the edge, providing for local access and performance while data is actually stored in centralized data centers. IT can now protect data centrally and restore branch operations in a matter of minutes versus days.

Download this new Iron Mountain white paper to explore the 10 steps to data center migration success.

Learn how much money your business can save. In an objective study commissioned by Microsoft, Forrester Consulting investigated the Total Economic Impact™ for small to medium sized businesses, with 1 to 250 employees, using Office 365. The study revealed a sizeable return on investment. One business founder had this to say, “The productivity gain is the main thing for me with Office 365. It’s allowed everybody to be more productive, and if there is any element of downtime on hardware, it’s just a case of moving into another location, whether it’d be the next desk, office, or Starbucks.” Discover these findings and more when you download the free report: • Improved Business Continuity. How enhanced business continuity lead to an avoidance in lost billable hours of $15,000 annually. • Increased mobile worker productivity. How an investment in mobility saved45 hours per year per worker. • Lowered Security, Risk, and Compliance Costs. How an organization went from 15 data breaches per year

The "build-or-buy" decision between construction and colocation should be weighed carefully. This executive report will review six key factors that affect that choice, some of which extend beyond a basic TCO analysis.

Download the new white paper from Cyxtera that provides a data center evaluation checklist to ensure you cover all selection criteria as you tour various facilities.

This paper details CaminoSoft's vision for a disaster recovery solution that provides electronic protection of critical data at a remote location. The solution that provides this remote data protection is CaminoSoft's OFFSite Archive for NetWare.

Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency.  However, despite the proliferation of data that businesses generate today, the potential value of this location dimension is often overlooked in the business intelligence process.

As the demand for bandwidth grows, so does the reach of networks. Users need to access data globally, from multiple locations around the world, quickly and transparently without breaking budgets. Data centers locked into servicing only local users unnecessarily constrain growth and expansion.

Accudata Technologies, provides flexible access to data validation through innovative technology and cutting-edge data transmission. Accudata serves as an access hub for validating information associated with telephone numbers, cellular numbers and IP locations while also providing line information database storage of phone numbers and corresponding information.

ITS technology is a general term. Two common and related forms of ITS communication technology using event stream processing are referred to as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to-infrastructure (V2X) in the US, and car-to-infrastructure (Car2X) in Europe. The two types of connected-car research and development programs often overlap and can be integrated. Car2X enables vehicle communication with the road transportation infrastructure and provides the ability to send or receive local information about traffic conditions, geo-markers (e.g. to identify pothole locations), road hazards, alerts, safety vehicles, etc. V2V focuses on connected-car technology and the anonymous communication of sensor data continuously transmitted to and from cars. Using event stream processing, this streaming data enables the real-time synthesis of information to communicate what will improve and promote driver safety, reduce crashes, and improve vehicle transportation efficiency.

Whether you call them customers, clients, patrons, guests or patients, customers are your organization’s most important asset. And that means customer loyalty should be among your top priorities. No matter when or where the customer journey begins – from websites and online chat to physical locations and call centers – customers expect you to provide a unique and personal experience. How can you use data and analytics to recognize your best customers across channels and know exactly where they are in their customer journey? Keep reading to find out.

Location data is found everywhere – with an item or a device, in a conversation or behavior, in machines or sensors, tied to a customer or competitor, attached to a database record or recorded from vehicles or other moving objects. Organizations want to take advantage of location data to improve decisions, create better customer engagement and experiences, reduce risks and automate business processes.

Characteristics of Co-location for Small to Medium Sized Businesses ©