Cisco grows its collaboration portfolio

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	Cisco grows its collaboration portfolio Cisco has announced a slew of new cloud capabilities at its recent Cloud Collaboration Summit -- launching new and upgraded hosted cloud offerings, a Web conferencing solution for private clouds, and providing partners with additional "as-a-service" revenue opportunities for Cisco partners. The latest upgrades span telepresence, Web conferencing, unified communications (UC) and contact center solutions. The innovations are designed to advance Cisco CloudVerse solutions by providing elements to more easily build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sprint Streamline your business with UC&C from Sprint If you're still weighed down by an outdated communications infrastructure, you're holding your business back. Our comprehensive cloud-based unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) solution offers a risk-mitigating migration strategy, providing scalability, network & cost efficiency, greater reliability, & enhanced mobility for all employees. GET THE DETAILS In this Issue How we tested Web-based conferencing services INSIDER Web-based conferencing comes of age Genband, Verizon add to UC portfolios Best desktop video tools WHITE PAPER: Cisco Understanding the Options to Find the Right Fit Wondering which cloud collaboration solution is best for your business? Learn the four key factors you must consider when choosing a supplier--and find the right solution that will enable faster time to market. Read Now How we tested Web-based conferencing services We set up a variety of meetings on each of the services and then connected via different desktops, browsers, and mobile clients to see how each displayed the meeting content and handled the audio connection. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Rescue: Remote Support for PCs and mobile devices. Rescue lets you remotely connect, troubleshoot and repair PCs and todays' most popular smartphones. With Rescue, IT can instantly connect, diagnose and solve. This enables IT to do more, and spend time on the tough IT cases. Do more and improve customer satisfaction and outcomes. Find out what IT knows. Do More. Try Rescue today INSIDER Web-based conferencing comes of age As more people telecommute, having a reliable way to connect via desktop video conferencing takes on greater importance. And for employees working in the office, Web-based meetings are a cheaper and less time consuming alternative to business travel. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Smartphones and Tablets Learn how to reduce the impact of BYOD uploads and downloads, contains bandwidth costs, and ensure the performance of business critical applications. Learn more. Genband, Verizon add to UC portfolios Today we'll catch up on all the relevant news from late last week as we highlight a Genband addition to its IP-Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) portfolio along with a new addition to Verizon's SMB portfolio with "Virtual Communications Express." Read More Best desktop video tools Adobe Connect and Cisco WebEx are all-around winners in test of Web-based conferencing products Read More
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