The Future of Business: Preparing to Meet Its Challenges

Cisco has identified five infrastructure strategies that will help IT achieve its goals. They include mobility, unified communications, IT as a service (ITaaS), data center solutions, and video. This paper will examine these trends, describe why the network is the logical starting point for transforming business, and offer insight into the most strategic IT investments that businesses should consider today. Cisco believes that by using the network as a platform for transformation, businesses can achieve the agility they need for success, as well as encourage powerful, creative new thinking that has the potential to transform all business.