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Fewer customers, more competition: Adapting to a changing FinTech market
Roji Oommen Posted On September 16, 2022

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If you’re an established fintech company, you have several years of growth behind you, a full book of business and customers completely invested in your service. Congratulations. However, your business environment is changing in at least two critical ways. Venture […]


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Established FinTech Companies Face Complications in Evolving
Roji Oommen Posted On September 6, 2022

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FinTech is hot. The venture capital industry is churning out new players like coins in a mint. Many of these new companies target niches in the various segments of the financial services industry: consumer banking, capital markets, insurance, etc. And […]


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Get ahead of budget concerns with a best-execution-venue strategy
Lumen Posted On August 8, 2022

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Economic indicators seem to be all over the place. Inflation is high, but employment is strong. The stock market is down, but earnings are holding in many sectors. I could go on (gas prices have come down despite lots of […]


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Cloud First vs Cloud Smart
Lumen Posted On August 5, 2022

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  In our newest episode of Light, Data, Action! Terry Barbounis sat down with Bhargs Srivathsan, Partner at McKinsey & Company, leader focusing on cloud and edge, and leader of the “Women Who Cloud” initiative. Together they explore how businesses […]


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Environmental change requires architecting for flexibility
Lumen Posted On June 27, 2022

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The last two years underscored the uncertainty and fluid nature of our organizational environments. The environment changed and the way we work changed. The natural world knows this phenomenon well. Environmental disruptions like hurricanes or landslides can change the flow […]


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Replacing Your POTS Lines with Cloud Infrastructure—No Line Left Behind
Molly Moser Posted On June 13, 2022

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There’s been a lot of talk (pun intended) around upgrading legacy voice technology to IP-enabled communications, and the benefits of adopting cloud infrastructure are impressive. Cloud telephony provides scalability, flexibility, business resilience, and affordability. However, it’s not just phone lines […]


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What is orchestration?
Lumen Posted On May 13, 2022

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IT organizations are turning to a new type of technology designed to streamline and simplify how they manage their edge and cloud-based infrastructures: cloud orchestration. Learn what it is, how it differs from automation and why it is a must-have […]


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Raising the bar with high-bandwidth capabilities for Ethernet
Lumen Posted On April 27, 2022

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Data production is soaring. Network bandwidth has to keep up. That’s why Lumen is announcing expanded capabilities of our Ethernet network. This next-generation architecture represents a 10-fold increase in our standard Ethernet offerings and will be available across our Ethernet-based […]


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Design your own wavelength connectivity with Lumen Topology Viewer
Todd Geneser Posted On April 27, 2022

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As the economy continues at warp speed down the digital road, networks need to evolve to effectively support it. Whether you’re creating a robust hybrid workforce, deploying applications to the Edge, or moving forward with your first public cloud deployment, […]


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Think long term when going to the cloud, or buying a house
Lumen Posted On April 6, 2022

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I spend a lot of time in California’s Silicon Valley, an area known for innovative startups and some of the most expensive real estate in the world. They follow the same metaphorical pattern. Startups today are born in the cloud […]


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