Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations

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	Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations Webtorials and Avaya have once again provided a great reference for those considering a unified communications (UC) deployment. The white paper, titled "Why UC Implementations Fail," reviews the top 10 pitfalls that organizations should consider when as they move through the UC implementation process. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study - Psomas As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to accelerate application performance to accommodate a changing set of demands from the business as well as employees. With Riverbed Steelhead products deployed worldwide, their employees can now share work and leverage resources wherever they happen to be. Read now! In this Issue Cisco's Umi still dead. As a doornail. Really, really dead Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey 5 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2012 The Future is Now: CES 2012 Video Sneak Peek 2012 tech startups to watch product sampler Who's lying? The iPad owner or the border guard? WEBCAST: EdgeWave Protecting Your Organization from Internet-Based Threats This live product demonstration covers iPrism's rich multi-layered feature set and award-winning proprietary defense technology that protects organizations from emerging Internet threats including spyware, criminal malware, phishing and inappropriate content. View Now! Cisco's Umi still dead. As a doornail. Really, really dead Cisco's Umi consumer TelePresence product really is dead - a fact the company had to reiterate to a disbelieving public this week even though it had telegraphed the move back in April. Read More Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it's getting harder for IT to maintain application visibility and control performance. Trends such as consumerization, mobility and cloud computing are also increasing business risk, CIOs say. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More 5 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2012 When 80 percent of people reportedly don't know how to use LinkedIn properly, a New Year's resolution is born. Read More The Future is Now: CES 2012 Video Sneak Peek Vendors show cool gadgets ahead of next week's consumer gadget-a-thon Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more 2012 tech startups to watch product sampler Read More Who's lying? The iPad owner or the border guard? One or the other isn't telling the truth - they're flat-out lying -- this much we know for certain. Perhaps by now you've seen the story about the Canadian freelance photographer, who having left his passport at home, was allowed to cross the border into the U.S. anyway offering nothing but his driver's license (normally not enough) and a photograph of said passport (absolutely not allowed) that he... Read More
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