The consumerization of UC

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	The consumerization of UC Unified communications (UC) was born to serve the enterprise market, with voice over IP (VoIP) as the prerequisite service needed to create the remaining UC portfolio. As with many services that users learned to value in the workplace, the portfolio of UC services is also gaining popularity among consumers. We have seen UC features offered to consumers by wireline providers, by over the top (OTT) providers, and (to a lesser extent) by wireless providers. However, the consumer portfolio still has a long way to go before it "unifies" the consumer experience as completely as the enterprise portfolio. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Solutions for delivering content & applications to IPv6 This document provides an overview of the challenges inherent in the transition from IP version 4 (IPv4) to IP version 6 (IPv6) and describes the features provided by the EqualizerTM family of Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) that ease this transition. View Now In this Issue INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? The best business mobile products of 2012 Tech's 20 Biggest Winners of 2012 Cisco reportedly shopping Linksys division RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds, Inc. SolarWinds Web Help Desk Software - Awesomely Affordably Web-based ticketing, change management, IT asset management & more! SolarWinds Web Help Desk is an affordable, feature-rich, easy-to-use tool that goes beyond simple trouble ticket solutions. Automatically convert user emails into tickets, update tickets, inventory assets & more. Get all of the help desk features you need at an incredible price! Download a fully functional, 30-day free trial today and discover how easy and affordable help desk software can be! INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Financial Analytics: How IT Leaders Can Help CFOs CFOs rely on their IT leaders to guide them to the tools that help them keep up with the pace of today's business - tools that help them plan, report, measure and analyze data so they can make smarter decisions and drive more predictable business outcomes. Learn More The best business mobile products of 2012 InfoWorld's highest rated must-haves for serious mobile users Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! Tech's 20 Biggest Winners of 2012 Read More Cisco reportedly shopping Linksys division Cisco is reportedly looking to unload Linsys, the maker of wireless routers for consumers that the company acquired almost a decade ago. This isn't the first time such reports have surfaced. From a Bloomberg story: Read More
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