LQ Mgmt. calls on Verizon Business; Skype's 'success' speaks volumes

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	LQ Mgmt. calls on Verizon Business for communications services LQ Management L.L.C., owner and operator of La Quinta Inns & Suites, has signed an $11 million agreement with Verizon Business for communications services that includes VoIP for LQ Management's operations and wireless access for guests at its nearly 800 corporate-owned and franchise hotels located in 46 states. The service will run over Verizon's global Private IP network, which offers six classes of service for prioritizing business applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Skype's 'success' speaks volumes Collaboration vendors join for interoperability VoIP phone service reaps savings, features for staffing firm WHITE PAPER: Polycom Hosted VoIP. What Does That Mean To My Business? This informative guide, featuring questions from business people, provides answers and insights on how Hosted VoIP can impact communications by providing critical features and flexibility, all for significantly lower costs. Read More Skype's 'success' speaks volumes By many measures Skype has been a remarkable success, primary among them (for me) that the videoconferencing it enables has managed to virtually reunite my sister in Minnesota with her family in Massachusetts. However, Skype has not been the kind of financial success one would have expected from a company that once commanded $2.6 billion from eBay (their bad) ... and there are ample reasons to doubt... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Collaboration vendors join for interoperability A number of unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a group to make sure all the pieces needed for collaboration will work together. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! VoIP phone service reaps savings, features for staffing firm When staffing firm Aquent scrapped its decentralized phone system for an outsourced VoIP service it saved $20,000 per month, expanded the features of its videoconferencing system and enhanced functionality of its ERP system in one fell swoop. Read More
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