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	Verizon announces VoIP packages for SMBs At the recent Comptel Spring 2010 conference, Verizon Global Wholesale Division announced plans for three new VoIP and Internet packages designed for retail service providers to offer to small and midsize businesses. The wholesale offers will be accompanied by marketing efforts to SMBs. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NEC How did The Peninsula Shanghai improve their guest services? They partnered with NEC. Peninsula wanted to create a fully converged voice and data wireless LAN throughout the hotel to respond to guests requests instantly. See how NEC, a leading provider of IT and network solutions and services, helped Peninsula deal with this challenge in this case study. Click to continue In this Issue 2010 – The year of network and application optimization Four trends shape the New Data Center Is IT keeping up with a changing infrastructure? WHITE PAPER: Polycom Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing. Read More 2010 – The year of network and application optimization Each year for most of the last decade we have heard that this is the year of VoIP. The reality is that in our industry, something as broad-based and complex as the adoption of VoIP does not happen in a year. That being said, it can take a big step forward in a year. With that definition in mind, we think that this is the year of network and application optimization – the year that it takes a big step forward. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Improve Productivity by Optimizing your SSL VPN Are you getting all you can from your SSL VPN? Read this whitepaper to find out Learn More Four trends shape the New Data Center Thanks to x86 server virtualization and its follow-on technologies, the state-of-the-art enterprise data center looks vastly different than it did even a year ago. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Essential Information Protection Successful organizations depend upon their ability to collaborate, communicate, and share information online. This paper explains how Essential Information Protection is designed to help organizations make the most of their IT security investments. Read More Is IT keeping up with a changing infrastructure? As IT infrastructures become increasingly converged and components increasingly interdependent, IT admins are still not factoring in the collateral impact of individual changes to the IT environment, said one exec. Read More
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