Nemertes: 2014 TCO Results for IPT and UC Suppliers

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	Nemertes: 2014 TCO Results for IPT and UC Suppliers Today, we recommend two educational resources, including a TCO benchmark study completed by Nemertes detailing TCO results for leading IP telephony (IPT) and unified communications (UC) suppliers. The second piece, a short tech note authored by Steve Taylor, shows how the network management challenges of SIP-based contact centers can be helped with support from a session border controller.Nemertes interviewed and surveyed 189 enterprises to gather cost data for seven leading IP Telephony (IPT) and Unified Communications (UC) vendors, using the data to develop a total cost of ownership (TCO) model, then compared the 2014 TCO to the previous year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Collaboration 2.0 Death of the Web Conference This new study from Ovum and join.me by LogMeIn is based on a survey of over 3,900 full time professionals worldwide regarding their collaboration and meeting-related behaviors and activities. Learn More In this Issue Hackers tapped into Syrian opposition's battle plans Cisco offers ACI alternative for Nexus 9000 switches Let's help two IT guys find a 1990s photo FCC still has ton of explaining to do on Wi-Fi blocking rules WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Re-Evaluating the Role of "Traditional" Audio Conferencing The audio conferencing market is changing and buyers are starting to move from traditional audio conference providers to integrated audio and web conferencing solutions. Learn More>> Hackers tapped into Syrian opposition's battle plans Syrian opposition leaders lost gigabytes of secret communications and battlefield plans to hackers who baited them into downloading malware during flirtatious Skype chats, according to a report released Sunday.Last fall, FireEye stumbled across a server containing the documents and files while researching PDF-based malware, said Laura Galante, manager of threat intelligence at the computer security firm.The cache of documents included annotated satellite images, weapons records, Skype chats and personal information on those who have sought to topple President Bashar al-Assad in the four-year civil war. It was unclear if Assad's regime was behind the campaign.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Bridging the Gap Between Users and IT The BYOA trend is accelerating, as more users are ditching their current solution and introducing their own collaboration apps into the workplace, often without consulting IT. Read this study to learn four ways IT pros can regain control of collaboration. Learn More Cisco offers ACI alternative for Nexus 9000 switches Cisco is adding a control plane capability to its Nexus 9000 switches for customers not yet opting for or needing a full-blown application policy infrastructure. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> Let's help two IT guys find a 1990s photo   I received this request via email recently, and, while it involves a decidedly trivial matter, we are intent on giving it our best shot. And by "we" I mean that I am confident that we can count on your assistance, too.Email reads: I've got a really oddball request for you.  Back in the early nineties, I was on a team responsible for putting in Ethernet at my large company (Rockwell International).  We used to get the various trade magazines.  In one of them was an ad, and my boss joked that the picture would be what a coworker (Rod Paris) and I would look like in 20 years.  We laughed and hung it on the wall.So, I'm still friends with that coworker.  We lost the picture, and we've both tried repeatedly to search for the advertisement, because we'd like to see how close the ad actually was!  I even paged through a bunch of old trade magazines that were put online.  We can't find it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   FCC still has ton of explaining to do on Wi-Fi blocking rules The FCC has been very clear that it didn't approve of a Marriott International hotel's blocking of convention center attendees' Wi-Fi hotspots: It fined the hospitality company $600,000 last fall and issued a stern warning on Jan. 27 that such wireless network interference by others will not be tolerated either.But what remains murky to IT shops and wireless LAN product vendors is exactly what constitutes illegal "Wi-Fi blocking":To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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