Avaya expands video, collaboration offerings

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	Avaya expands video, collaboration offerings Avaya has announced a new portfolio of video communications and collaboration products and services. Headlining the solutions is the Avaya "Flare Experience", delivering collaboration capabilities across video, voice and text. The new products and services, which range from personal desktop to multi-screen room systems, offer high-definition video collaboration Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power 10 reasons for MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer Software. To operate at peak efficiency, the data center manager must have immediate access to the right information. With the Avocent infrastructure planning and management solution, you can quickly realize the benefits of predictive simulation and modeling for every device in your data center. Read now. In this Issue Unified communications integrated in the cloud Why are there no Cisco iPad applications? Google Apps ups security with two-factor authentication WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks The High Performance Network for iSCSI IT organizations have been focusing on creating a converged infrastructure to support high-performance iSCSI while allowing other applications to coexist on the network. Read now! Unified communications integrated in the cloud Unified communications (UC) as we know it today is flawed. The initial investment is simply too high for the return, partly due to the cost of each component and the fact you need gateway servers and software to tie the disparate systems together. Even then there's no guarantee the products will play nicely with one another, meaning you have to add an additional line item to the budget for troubleshooting. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel 10 Tips for IP-based Communications With IP telephony, the goal is to stop maintaining two parallel networks for voice and data. This white paper provides 10 tips to simplify management of VoIP and UC and achieve the end goal of self-service IP-based communications. Read More! Why are there no Cisco iPad applications? I have been wondering for a while why there are no Cisco made iPad applications within iTunes besides WebEx. Then I started to think about the event over the last year. Cisco unveils the Cius Android Tablet which I talked about in a prior post, Chambers vs. Jobs, IPad vs. Cius, a battle brewing. Then we had the story on the possible purchase of Skype by Cisco, Cisco making a play for Skype. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! Google Apps ups security with two-factor authentication Google this morning has taken a step to shore up confidence in the security of its cloud computing products by introducing to them a two-factor authentication system. And you can't beat the price: free. Read More
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