IBM touts UCC platform; Unified communications saves $200k/year

	Unified communications saves Canadian school district $200k/year | UC pays off for Fluor, NHL hockey team
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	IBM touts UCC platform We recently had a chance to talk with John Del Pizzo, IBM director of unified communications and collaboration about how IBM sees collaboration as an extension of unified communications. Del Pizzo heads up IBM's Sametime product management group that has spent the last five years transitioning Sametime into a unified communications and collaboration (UCC) platform. 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 Unified communications saves Canadian school district $200k/year UC pays off for Fluor, NHL hockey team Skype CEO envisions switching devices during calls RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Unified communications saves Canadian school district $200k/year The Pembina Trails School Division in the Canadian province of Manitoba is saving $200,000 a year in telecom costs thanks to its unified communications deployment, which includes Adtran NetVanta software, Windows-based Dell servers and Polycom and Grandstream IP phones. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. UC pays off for Fluor, NHL hockey team Fluor Corp. and the Buffalo Sabres weren't looking to implement a unified communications infrastructure, but pressing telecom needs led both in that direction after Fujitsu exited the U.S. PBX business. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Intelligent Storage Management at the File Level Many storage management tools for file storage are "dumb." They treat all files the same regardless of business relevance and they lack the ability to automate user-storage management tasks or set policies based on business requirements. Learn how to augment your existing storage management system with intelligence at the file level. Read Now Skype CEO envisions switching devices during calls Skype CEO Josh Silverman wants to give users the ability to switch devices without interrupting voice and video calls made using his company's software. Read More
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