GREG SORBER

In our lifetime, the gulf between the haves and have-nots has never been wider, and the business world has stepped forward to play an active role in confronting the problem.

A staggering 99.9 percent of all U.S. businesses are considered “small.”1 But what they lack in human and financial resources, they make up with ambition, smarts, tenacity, and in many cases, technology.

This edition of Unleashing IT highlights the maturation of big data technologies and strategies, and how companies are transitioning from one-off pilot projects to powerful enterprise capabilities that can be leveraged on a daily basis.

This edition of Unleashing IT explores the cresting wave of digitization and the ways modern enterprises—with the help of cloud services—are navigating a riptide business environment.

This edition of Unleashing IT explains why the data center is more important than ever before, facilitating virtually all business activities, wherever those activities take place.

Technology integration doesn’t happen overnight. It takes years of behind-the-scenes teamwork and engineering, backed by decades of expertise, research, and development. This special edition of Unleashing IT highlights the fruits of those labors, showcasing the unparalleled alignment of Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel technologies.

In today’s ultracompetitive and fast moving business world, there is little time to piece together a technology environment from scratch. And there is no tolerance for hiccups along the way.

This edition of Unleashing IT showcases the groundswell of momentum surrounding Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™), which fundamentally transforms the way technology is delivered in support of business priorities.