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Distribution Management Uses F5 To Solve Virtualization Challenges
Wholesaler Distribution Management is using F5's new VDI support to take advantage of growing mobility and virtualization opportunities while addressing many of the accompanying challenges, including increased infrastructure costs and performance issues.
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- Zultys Ships 'Ultimate' UC Contact Center Management Tool
- Avaya Goes After Cisco With New Ethernet Switches
- Cisco Dials Up Midmarket UC
- Cisco TelePresence Turns 5, Broadens Options
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Architectures
Six Ways To Reduce Your Corporate Telecom Expenses
As IT budgets come under increased pressure, addressing wasteful telecommunications spending is more important than ever. This two-part article will outline six cost reduction opportunities that an enterprise can quickly explore without compromising network integrity or requiring in-depth negotiation with its telecom providers. Savings achieved by identifying and executing on these types of opportunities can yield a minimum ten percent reduction in telecom expenses. Let's dive into the first five cost-saving opportunities.
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- Get Ready For A Wire-Free Enterprise
- Virtualization's Promise And Problems
- Desktop Virtualization Drives Security, Not Just Dollar Savings
- Sneak Peek At Our Third Annual NAC Reader Survey
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Reviews & Workshops
Review: Vidyo Video-Conferencing
Vidyo provides a family of video-conferencing products that are designed to use the Internet rather than a private WAN to connect videoconferencing systems. Vidyo's product line includes a room system, VidyoRoom, as well as a PC client, gateway-to-SIP and H.323 devices, as well as a friendly administrative system. Vidyo uses off-the-shelf cameras and microphones that you can purchase anywhere. We tested VidyoRoom and several PC clients at Hippensteel Labs.
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Blogs
Shared Data Plans Will Have Significant Impact
January 10, 2012 06:01 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
As the major U.S. carriers get closer to unleashing shared data plans for mobile devices, it’s worth noting how this change in offering will likely impact both the private and corporate sides of the mobile client world. Smartphones and tablets have already been profoundly disruptive in a number of ways, and new multidevice data plans will only magnify the effect.
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Can ShoreTel Be Everyone's Mobility Solution?
October 24, 2011 09:23 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
There are a growing number of stories to be told about management frameworks in the corporate mobile device space. Some are about one-trick ponies tied to limited device types or PBXes, while others describe solutions that are so flush with functionality that you have to study them for a while to fully appreciate what they offer. ShoreTel Mobility is one of those impressive stories that may take some review to fully appreciate.
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Google Voice Saves The Day
October 12, 2011 12:40 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
This week I'm on the road at SNW in Orlando and then to speak at Dell's Tech Summit internal event leading into Dell World in Austin. During all the chaos of interplanetary travel, I rely heavily on Google Voice and its ability to track me down like a dog. When I discovered yesterday that my cell phone had gone among the missing, Google Voice once again came through for me.
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Radvision Does Big-Time Small-Device Video Conferencing
October 05, 2011 07:00 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Ah, the BYOD craze. Users demand to use their own mobile devices for work, network admins fret over how to properly manage these odd little gems, and industry players continue to roll out some pretty amazing mobile capabilities--like Radvision's new SCOPIA Mobile video conferencing application, which extends enterprise-quality conferencing to consumer-grade smart devices.
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Mitel Expands The Reach Of Its Unified Communications Solution Into iSpace
September 29, 2011 08:29 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Mitel is one of those old dogs in the telephony world that has never had a problem learning new tricks. The corporate communications world once ran on barge-sized PBX systems, but now IP-based unified communications systems are the impressive norm. And though Mitel came from the old world, it continues to keep its offerings fresh with the latest version of Mitel Unified Communicator Advanced.
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Who Owns Spam?
August 11, 2011 07:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
I was recently asked to test the suitability of a storage system as a repository for email archives and had to come up with a set of email messages to use as test data. I want to distribute this data set to my clients so they can do their own testing, so I needed to have the right to distribute the messages. That triggered the question: Who owns the copyright on spam?
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
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: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
