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Africa Went Mobile, Hospitals Need to go Cloud

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Africa has 433 million cell phone subscriptions and only 12 million landlines. Africans have enthusiastically adopted mobile technology because it is accessible, scalable, cost effective and most importantly – it is available. When technologies emerge that make our lives easier and more connected, we adopt them - so should healthcare. By not investing in cloud solutions, [...]

Revelations from Future of Healthcare IT Study [INFOGRAPHIC]

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In order to gain further insight into the future of healthcare IT and the trends driving the industry, Level 3 commissioned a nationwide study of 100 healthcare CIOs and IT executives. Conducted in late 2012 by independent research firm Corona Insights, the findings from the study paint an interesting picture of the priorities and challenges [...]

Our Thoughts on Cybersecurity

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Level 3 has just released a white paper titled Perspectives on Cybersecurity.  Not only does it provide an overview of basic cybersecurity principles, it presents our view of proposed legislation. Additionally, we discuss the role of service providers and the government in protecting our nation’s most sensitive networks and applications. And we also cover an [...]

Gartner IT Expo: Let’s Blow Some Stuff Up Together

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As Carolyn was talking about, this year the call to CIOs at Gartner IT Expo is stronger and more urgent: “You have to do more then keep the lights on!” IT can no longer be just the people that give us the goodies like iPads and load the latest Windows patches. IT needs to help [...]

Gartner IT Expo: Cloud Brokers, Cloud Fatigue and Rethinking IT

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Reimagine IT is the theme for Gartner IT Expo down here in Orlando.  It’s good timing for the new Level 3, and the Gartner sessions are interesting both from being a tech company trying to understand customers’ hot issues, and from looking at my own company internally. Similar to last year, key technologies are Cloud [...]