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Will You be Prepared When the Next Disaster Strikes?
Learn about common methods to restore your IT infrastructure.

How disastrous will the next Sandy or other natural disaster be for your business? The total costs of any significant service outage can be devastating, from both revenue and public relations standpoints. But how much should you spend to prepare and what's the best strategy?

Laura DuBois, Program Vice President, Storage, IDC will present current trends in adoption of cloud-based Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and will highlight best practices you should consider.

EarthLink Business experts share how our full suite of disaster recovery options are being implemented by a range of businesses throughout the U.S.

Download the whitepaper or watch the previously recorded webinar to learn about the disaster recovery protection required to improve business resilience and continuity — spanning voice, network, data, and IT infrastructure — so when the next disaster strikes, business losses are minimized and you can restore your communications services rapidly.


Your Cloud is Only as Good as Your Network
How you connect to the cloud can be as important as the cloud itself

Our EarthLink Business webinar, Your Cloud is Only as Good as Your Network, lets you in on a little secret with big consequences: the network link between your business and the cloud is vital to your success with cloud computing. To maximize the full capabilities of cloud computing, you must do more than offload services to a cloud provider. Best results are achieved when you include network connectivity options as a key requirement in your cloud-provider selection process.

Your Cloud is Only as Good as Your Network illustrates the available network-access paths for multiple sites with different needs and shows you how to achieve the best cloud-computing results for your business.


Is Your Network Ready for the Retail Store of the Future?
Give customers the experience they want—without increasing costs.

The retail business evolves constantly, and to stay open and competitive, retailers must evolve with it. A wave of innovative retail technology lets you enhance the customers’ experience, increase employee productivity, improve PCI compliance and maximize the efficiency of your IT staff.

Download the whitepaper or view the previously recorded webinar presented by Cisco® and EarthLink® to learn how to drive this transformation and get more from your IT and communications infrastructure by tailoring it to store size, application needs and seasonal changes.


8 Reasons to Outsource Your Desktop to the Cloud
Discover why your business should take a ride on the Cloud

Cloud services—such as hosted virtual desktop—helps keep businesses flexible and safe. Hosted virtual desktop—which delivers results small and midsize businesses seek, such as cost reduction, secure data and infrastructure, and bring-your-own-device solutions—provides secure access for remote users. It also allows your IT staff to make important upgrades from behind the scenes, keep your business compliant with industry and government regulations, and can improve your bottom line.

Learn the benefits of hosted virtual desktop solutions and important questions to ask when selecting the right provider to help improve, support and protect your vital business applications and data.


Small and Mid-market Businesses Achieve Tremendous Benefit From Cloud Services
Cloud computing dramatically improves SMB agility and flexibility

For small and mid-market businesses, keeping IT nimble is more than a goal—it's a competitive mandate. The faster and more flexibly they can adapt to market changes and implement new strategies, the better the business outcome they'll get.

That's why so many in the SMB space are turning to cloud computing. Though commonly associated with enterprise-class organizations, the cloud model is equally as good a fit for small and mid-sized businesses—allowing them to accomplish more, faster, with fewer resources thus—outmaneuvering their competition.

View the previously recorded webinar, hosted by Mike Salviski, Senior Director of Enterprise Solutions at EarthLink. Mike explains how cloud computing is allowing businesses to make quick IT changes — and why that is more important than ever. Co-presenter Seth Bostock of independence IT shares his experience for implementing and using a cloud computing solution.

Available for download is the accompanying whitepaper where you will learn how a leading cloud software and platform services company enjoyed a successful migration to cloud computing and were able to keep their IT people very focused on strategic profit-generating product advancements, while also reducing management complexity, business risks, and operational costs—which have fallen a remarkable 16%.


Cloud Applications: An Edge for Today's Competitive Businesses
Learn the basics of Cloud Applications to find out how they can benefit small and medium businesses.

There are many different definitions of cloud applications and services. In simple terms, this Solution Brief explains how cloud applications can benefit your business. Hosted PBX and Hosted Email services are just two examples of cloud applications that can provide significant benefits to companies. This Brief presents a hypothetical business case where a small business owner leverages Hosted PBX and Hosted Email to improve operations, communications and minimize any potential business risks - all while saving time and money, which made the company more efficient and competitive.


Security in the Cloud: Mitigating Risk Outside Enterprise Boundaries
Move to the cloud while ensuring IT security and regulatory compliance.

Traditionally, sensitive data and applications have been deployed, managed, and accessed within the trusted boundaries established by IT. This whitepaper outlines the benefits and risks associated with moving to the cloud and provides a framework for working with vendors to mitigate those risks.


Achieve a 24x7, Scalable SMB Data Center via Hosted Services
Learn how to increase productivity and reduce IT costs through hosted services.

IT leaders at small to midsized businesses (SMBs) face challenges that are largely the same as those of their enterprise counterparts. Learn about data center challenges in detail, how to ensure continuous operation and positive user experience, and get the criteria to use in the selection of a hosting provider.

Author and presenter, Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.


End-to-End IP Powers Business in the Virtual Computing Era
Learn how to create an agile, dynamic and scalable organization with end-to-end IP.

As computing technology advanced from mainframe to client server to personal computers to mobile devices and almost-everywhere IP connectivity, corporate IT has adjusted and grown, but also holds on to its traditional model of operational environments. This whitepaper explains the importance and advantages of end-to-end IP architecture, and illustrates how the network is no longer just a tactical, low-value resource, but key to gaining competitive advantage in an increasingly fast-paced business climate.

Author and presenter, Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.


Hosted Unified Communications & Collaboration Will Accelerate Adoption
See how Unified Communications can help your organization grow.

Download this paper to see how Unified Communications (UC) brings all communications and collaborative tools together by improving the manageability and effectiveness of the ecosystem to enable competitive advantage. See how UC has the power to change the way work is done today, streamline business processes and raise corporate productivity to new levels - all at a dramatically lower cost than traditional communications methods.


MPLS: Key Factors to Consider When Selecting Your MPLS Provider
Understand the benefits of MPLS in comparison to your existing network infrastructure.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), once the sole domain of major corporations and telecom carriers, has gone mainstream. MPLS enables companies to converge voice, video and data on a single network. This paper details how MPLS-based WAN services help organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, support more applications, and ramp up security.


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