This document discusses trends in contact centers and cloud computing. It notes the business benefits of cloud computing like improved agility and lower costs. However, it also discusses concerns about cloud contact centers related to security, performance, and resilience. Specifically, it outlines various security threats like denial of service attacks, data theft, and voice biometric attacks that cloud contact centers face. The document advocates for selecting vendors based on performance, resilience, capabilities, and other factors. It provides insights from customer roundtables on topics like the evolution of communication channels and maintaining unified communications infrastructure.