White Papers
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.
Infrastructures for Innovation
Voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation
Advanced communications services are the backbone of effective customer experiences, providing businesses with quick, efficient and cost-effective ways to reach out and respond to clients and prospects. Companies that are still investing see enabling convergence, increasing scalability, and expanding application and information access as efforts that are both vital to opening new frontiers for the business and doing away with the unnecessary costs of legacy environments. View
Managed Security for a Not-So-Secure World
CIOs must manage security risks while addressing business needs and focusing on revenue-generating activities. This paper offers a strategy for providing data security and protection that addresses the rising data threat landscape, the need for compliance, and today's lean IT staffs. View
Mobile Security: The Essential Ingredient for Today's Enterprise
With a growing universal mobile workforce, it's important to understand the challenges and misconceptions about security in terms of complacency, cost, experience and do-it-yourself security management. Having a mobile security program that incorporates a trusted managed-security provider is a best business practice and an essential ingredient in protecting today's enterprises. View
Mobility
Stay Connected - Embrace Mobility at Your Business
Whether they're in an airport, hotel, or even at home, employees need to be as connected to your customers and business partners as they are in the office. View
Network Management Services: A Cost-Effective Approach to Complexity
Inside the networked enterprise, data streams are purchase orders, invoices, design specifications, online transactions, and customer service interactions that must flow across the network reliably, securely, and in real time. To support these mission-critical enterprise networks, enterprises are looking at alternative delivery models. Network management services can help companies reduce the overall cost of network operations and acquire the expertise needed to manage network complexity. View
Optimizing Your Communications in a Recession
How to drive operational efficiencies with communications solutions and technologies
As companies struggle to be profitable, the right communications technologies and strategy can be a big factor in achieving their budget goals. This paper takes a look at how to best optimize communications during a recession by using IP telephony, wireless technology and conferencing solutions to drive greater business value and productivity on a minimal budget. View
Plan for Success
How can SMBs effectively invest in technology during a downturn?
A recent business news story on the recessionary environment reported that "fear" is now running the show in this country. That fear-factor sentiment is pervasive in "doom and gloom" stories that dominate daily U.S. news. Everyone is fearful, and challenges abound for all businesses, including many of the nation's Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). But with history as a guide, it's important for businesses to attempt to transcend the anxiety and uncertainty, and view a downturn as an opportunity to invest in future success. View
Plan for Success
Tips to help you achieve your goals in the new year
As the calendar changes, renewed optimism grows around the possibilities the new year may bring. And with some planning now, you can set yourself up to make those possibilities probable. View
Productivity
Getting More from Your Resources - Using Communications to Maximize Your Productivity
With business moving faster than ever before, boosting productivity is not just a competitive advantage. It is the key to the survival of many small and medium-sized businesses. View
Protecting Payment Card Data
Considerations for Achieving and Maintaining On-Going PCI DSS Compliance
Businesses managing payment card data face tremendous security challenges. The cost of a security breach can be devastating in terms of lost revenue, legal costs and damaged reputation. In fact, the payment card brands may even stop a business from processing credit card and debit card payments from customers.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) provides a blueprint for building and maintaining a secure data network; however, implementing the policies, people, processes and technologies to achieve and maintain PCI compliance can be overwhelming. This paper provides some background about PCI DSS and its effectiveness and explains how enlisting experts to help execute your strategy can be the best way to achieve and maintain on-going compliance. View
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