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Chris MacFarland to serve as Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer

Addition of Avaya Breeze and Avaya Oceana into XCaaS platform increases functionality, enhances customer experience

“The addition of Avaya Breeze and Oceana to our XCaaS portfolio adds new functionality that will empower our enterprise clients to deliver a truly best-in-class customer experience,” said Joseph Harding, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Windstream Enterprise & Wholesale.

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Here’s what you need to know about Software-Defined Wide Area Networking and customers’ options when moving to an SD-WAN solution.

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Telecom Brokers’ Executive Vice President, Nancy Ridge, shares on hot technology to improve efficiency, remain competitive, and grow.

TECHNOLOGY: Unified Communications as a Service) UCaaS

UCaaS supports strategic business goals, like better operational agility, better customer engagement and seamlessly connected employees, with a converged communications suite delivered from the cloud.

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We’re excited to have these conversations with you today. Our Team has extensive experience; our “can do” attitude and the special skills of our people have brought success to our many valued customers. Telecom Brokers extensive portfolio contains 150+ service providers worldwide. The many options for Voice, Data and Cloud products give our customers a variety of options. These options, along with our expertise, allow the flexibility needed to create custom solutions for each of our customers that best fits them financially, operationally and strategically.

Windstream delivers strong second-quarter results

Grew broadband customer base for the first quarter since 2015
Accelerated strategic sales to over 50% of Enterprise sales
Continued to grow Adjusted OIBDAR year-over-year and sequentially

LITTLE ROCK – Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions, today reported strong second-quarter results, including net growth in broadband subscribers for the first time in three years.

“Our Consumer segment delivered a successful quarter, adding 2,300 broadband subscribers,” said Tony Thomas, president and chief executive officer. “This continued an upward trend that we have experienced for the past several quarters and was driven by both strong sales and lower churn. It demonstrates that our network investments are paying off and enables us to say with confidence that we expect to grow our consumer broadband base in 2018.

“Our Enterprise segment continues to see improved results as our focus on SD-WAN, Unified Communications as a Service and on-net sales have driven improving revenue trends and margins. Windstream is now the largest SD-WAN provider in the country with more than 1,000 customers in over 12,000 locations nationwide. Sales of strategic products accelerated to over 50 percent of Enterprise sales for the quarter.

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ATLANTA – Cox Business, the commercial division of Cox Communications, today announced its acquisition of RapidScale, a leading managed and hybrid managed cloud services provider that delivers secure and reliable cloud solutions to businesses of all sizes.

The acquisition immediately enhances Cox Business’ managed services portfolio by combining transport and connectivity with RapidScale’s managed and hybrid managed cloud offerings. The new, strengthened connected cloud platform delivers a wide range of technology to help businesses improve productivity and reduce IT expenditures. RapidScale’s managed cloud solutions, including desktop, server, mail, backup and recovery, provide the most reliable, innovative and secure services that complement any organization’s IT efforts.

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TPx Has Business Security Covered, Rolls Out Managed Firewall, Endpoint & Backup/Disaster Recovery Services Nationwide

Comprehensive Managed Business Continuity & Security Solutions Provide Cost-Effective Peace of Mind for Small & Midsize Businesses

LOS ANGELES – Business owners and IT managers feel under constant siege because they literally are, and they struggle to figure out how to keep the ramparts manned and secure in the face of those constantly changing assaults. Today, they can breathe easier with TPx’s powerful new reinforcements: Managed Firewalls for advanced network security; Managed Endpoints for increased workstation and server performance and protection; and Managed Backups for a complete hybrid Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) solution.

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Published February 13, 2018

The data management solutions for analytics market is evolving as the cloud’s position solidifies, use cases for Hadoop clarify, logical data warehouse adoption grows, and Chinese vendors expand abroad. Against this dynamic backdrop, this report will help you find the right vendor for your business.

Market Definition/ Description

We define a data management solution for analytics (DMSA) as a complete software system that supports and manages data in one or more file management systems (usually databases). DMSAs include specific optimizations to support analytical processing. This includes, but is not limited to, support for relational processing, nonrelational processing (such as graph processing), and machine learning and programming languages such as Python and R. Data is not necessarily stored in a relational structure, and multiple models can be used — for example, relational, XML, JSON, key-value, text, graph and geospatial.

Although the traditional data warehousing use case remains foundational to most organizations’ analytics initiatives, there is also interest in the ability to manage and process increasingly diverse formats for both internal and external data. A complete DMSA must therefore be able to accommodate a diverse range of data types. These may include interaction and observational data — from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, for example — as well as nonrelational data, such as text, image, audio and video data.

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The role of IT is changing fast. Sure, you’re responsible for ensuring information is safe and secure, infrastructure runs smoothly and people stay connected. But for many growth-oriented IT professionals, the job extends much further. And so does the accountability.

IT professionals talk goals and challenges

We connected with over 700 U.S.–based IT professionals in enterprises just like yours to talk roles, priorities and barriers and discovered some insightful trends. We wanted to know:

• What’s on their agendas from an IT perspective this year?
• What’s being prioritized at the business level (and what role do they play in making it happen)?
• What’s holding them back from achieving their goals?

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