How to manage UC complexity

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	How to manage UC complexity For those who have multiple technologies, multiple locations, or multiple vendors in their unified communications deployments, we'd like to recommend a white paper available on Webtorials that looks at managing the complexity of such a portfolio. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Avaya Avaya Mobile Collaboration Read a complimentary Frost & Sullivan white paper: Prepare Your Enterprise for the Mobile Revolution. The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Learn how to keep costs in check, boost user productivity, deliver a consistent experience, and maintain a single, manageable corporate identity for all end-users. In this Issue Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Startup offers to buy Cisco's WebEx for $1 IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands IBM user group: 75% of companies aren't collecting social media information Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices It's just a phone, let it go RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ShoreTel ShoreTel Mobility ends the chaos of BYOD Unlike most IP phone systems, ShoreTel was actually made just for IP. So where others offer built-in complexity & cost, ShoreTel builds in ease, scalability, and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership – guaranteed. See the difference. Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier. Read More Startup offers to buy Cisco's WebEx for $1 A collaboration startup is offering to buy Cisco's WebEx conferencing platform for $1 and 15% equity in the acquirer. Read More WEBCAST: NetIQ Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More! IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands IT executives understand the value of cloud services and videoconferencing tools, but one of the chief concerns remains the strain those services put on network bandwidth, according to a study released today. Read More IBM user group: 75% of companies aren't collecting social media information A recent survey of the IBM SHARE user group found just 25% of respondents were collecting data from social media networks for business purposes, though many more are apparently planning to do so in the near future. Read More WHITE PAPER: Good Technology Data Loss Prevention Whitepaper: When MDM Isn't Enough This paper explores common methods of data loss that cannot be prevented through MDM alone. In addition, this paper will introduce Good for Enterprise and its unique approach to managing security on mobile devices, which does address some of the shortcomings of an MDM-only strategy Learn More Now! Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices AT&T has given new life to "The Hello Machine," a 1974 wordless film that celebrates the hand-crafting by Western Electric workers of a complete Electronic Switching System, which at the time was not yet 10-year-old technology. Directed by Carroll Ballard ("Never Cry Wolf," "The Black Stallion"), the 11-minute "film-poem" was posted to the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube earlier this month. Read More It's just a phone, let it go Three pieces of unsolicited advice this morning after reading this story from Dunwoody, Ga., on the Web site of the Atlanta FOX affiliate: If you should drop your phone down a trash chute, do not attempt to climb in and retrieve it, because you might get stuck and require rescue by the fire department. Read More
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