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Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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Alight Completes Cloud Migration Transformation, Delivering Enhanced Performance and Significant Cost Savings

--Alight's new cloud-based foundation creates a connected ecosystem that drives innovation, enhances availability and security, and improves performance, all within a streamlined infrastructure

--The transition is expected to achieve $75 million annualized savings

Alight, Inc. (NYSE: ALIT), a leading cloud-based and human capital technology services provider, announced the successful completion of its cloud migration program, including the full decommissioning of its Lincolnshire Data Center to an AWS environment.

This milestone marks the culmination of Alight’s cloud transformation initiative, resulting in a simplified and more efficient Alight Worklife® platform and is expected to achieve $75 million in annualized savings.

Alight Worklife was designed to meet the needs of the modern workforce, cutting down on complexity by integrating health, wealth and leaves benefits into one platform. With the completion of the cloud migration program, the platform now operates on an improved infrastructure with greater efficiency and amplifies many of its advantages including speed to innovation, quicker implementation and greater automation. These key attributes strengthen the power of Alight Worklife and empower employees to make more informed benefits decisions and give employers a competitive edge in their benefits strategy.

Key results from the cloud migration program include:

Platform simplification: Including a 40% reduction in the number of servers and a 60% reduction in middleware systems. Additionally, there was a 95% reduction in operating systems with a migration of nearly 300 applications and the sunsetting of more than 190 applications.

Enhanced performance: Including a 43% faster average response time across Health Enrollment pages and a 30% faster average load time for the Alight Worklife homepage.

Improved availability and security: Including an 85% increase in the adoption of security controls and the enhanced availability of more than 130 applications across three AWS locations.

“By completing our cloud migration during the first half of 2024, we are well positioned to deliver enhanced performance and increased capacity across the Alight Worklife platform,” said Greg Goff, President, Alight Solutions. “These investments are driving an all-important enhanced user experience which is critical in advancing how we serve our clients and their people.”

About Alight Solutions

Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider for many of the world’s largest organizations. Through the administration of employee benefits, Alight powers confident health, wealth, leaves and wellbeing decisions for 35 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform empowers employers to gain a deeper understanding of their workforce and engage them throughout life’s most important moments with personalized benefits management and data-driven insights, leading to increased employee wellbeing, engagement and productivity. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com

Forward-looking statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to our cloud migration program and its expected benefits, expectations for our business, and other non-historical statements. In some cases, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “outlook,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seeks,” “projects,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties including, among others, those described in the forward-looking statements can be found under the section entitled “Risk Factors” of Alight’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 29, 2024, and in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 8, 2024, as such factors may be updated from time to time in Alight's filings with the SEC, which are, or will be, accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be considered along with other factors noted in this presentation and in Alight’s filings with the SEC. Alight undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.

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