The networked world

What would happen if you switched the enterprise to Airplane Mode?

The simple answer: Nothing. Literally. Virtually every corporate process would grind to a halt, which is a simple testament to how reliant the modern organization is on the complex, interwoven, interdependent systems that pervade every fiber of business and society today.

From the key enabler of business agility and transformation to tactical new answers in cloud, mobile computing and analytics, intelligent connectivity has never been a more essential part of business, government and the consumer experience.

“All of these new trends we talk about — Internet of things, mobility, cloud computing, mesh computing — are network-centric compute paradigms,” says Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.

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