State of the Market reports examine UC, cloud-based services

	Former Avaya chief D'Ambrosio takes reigns at Sears | Is VoIP too secure?
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	State of the Market reports examine UC, cloud-based services Today we'd like to share several reports hosted by Webtorials. The first is a 2011 State of the Market report on UC and Cloud Based Services for SMBs. The second companion piece is a second Webtorials State of the Market report on SMB Communications Plan and Priorities. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ShoreTel ShoreTel's #1 rated IP phone system blasts competition Say "goodbye" to the costly support and service of complex systems, and say "hello" to the lowest TCO in the market. ShoreTel's all-in-one system with integrated UC is so easy to deploy, scale and use, that year after year IT pros vote it #1 in Nemertes Research. Click to get the report. In this Issue Former Avaya chief D'Ambrosio takes reigns at Sears Is VoIP too secure? The morphing of VoIP into Unified Communications, Collaboration and beyond LifeSize Adds Mobile Streaming CIPT1 8.0 Lab 4 The VA Wants To Use Open Source To Make Electronic Health Records Better Cisco gets the message, ditches hosted e-mail service RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. Download free 30-day trial Former Avaya chief D'Ambrosio takes reigns at Sears Long-time tech executive Lou D'Ambrosio has taken the helm at Sears Holdings Corp. with the goal of reversing the department store's downward financial trend and possibly boosting its online business. (Network World named D'Ambrosio one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Networking in 2006) Read More Is VoIP too secure? It's hard to imagine, but roughly 10 years ago as VoIP was being rolled out corporate networkers were quite concerned about the security of VoIP. As we faced a move from voice going over a traditional (and, by the way, unencrypted) network, there was concern that VoIP would be much too easy to eavesdrop on - especially if it traversed the Internet. Read More WEBCAST: Adobe Deliver Engaging Communications with PDF Portfolios Learn how easy it is to create and send a single PDF Portfolio using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. See how to create a rich, branded PDF Portfolio containing many types of documents, each with a rich preview experience. Learn More The morphing of VoIP into Unified Communications, Collaboration and beyond VoIP has grown up to become 'collaboration' and this will be nothing short of a revolution in how we all do our jobs. Now that all of your communication methods can be combined, or unified into a single system that is interoperable with other systems, what happens next? Read More LifeSize Adds Mobile Streaming mobileThe convergence of wired and unwired takes another step this week with the launch of LifeSize's HD content streaming solution for mobile devices. LifeSize Video Center allows companies to push video conferences to mobile users via one-way video streaming. This announcement follows similar efforts from companies such as Vidyo, as well as Skype and Apple to bring video conferencing to smartphones and... Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Unified Communications Drive Protocol Convergence Download this whitepaper today and examine the key behind the evolution of unified communications: SIP. Learn more. CIPT1 8.0 Lab 4 Configuring an H.323 Gateway This video demonstrates how to configure an H.323 gateway in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM). Once added, this gateway allows the CUCM cluster to receive calls from the PSTN. Read More The VA Wants To Use Open Source To Make Electronic Health Records Better Setting up an open source "ecosystem" is the goal of new RFIFor years now the health care industry has been in search of a uniform, unified, interchangeable health record format that would allow different systems and different providers to share and use information seamlessly. Even with HIPAA, Hi-Tech and everything else, there has not been on health record format that has become the standard. Now the Veterans Administration is enlisting the help of open... Read More Cisco gets the message, ditches hosted e-mail service Foray into a mature, crowded market proves unwise, unsustainableSecond-guessing is always easy ... and sometimes warranted. (2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries) Take, for example, this morning's news that Cisco has decided to pull the plug on its year-old hosted e-mail service, Cisco Mail, citing as a reason the apparently newfound realization that IT executives have come to view e-mail as more of a commodity than a strategic application. You don't say. Read... Read More
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