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AppNeta: Real-time Management from the Cloud
Apparent Networks changes its name, and its CTO explains to me why he's sticking with Amazon cloud services even after last week.
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PC Video Drives a Shift in Resource Management
Enterprises who have traditional video conferencing and plan to deploy desktop systems need to change their thinking about how to manage resources.
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Report Says Siemens Considering Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Acquisition
ALU is meeting with potential acquirers, including private equity firms, in San Francisco this week, according to the report.
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To Potential ALU Enterprise Suitors: Remember the Customers
Whether it's HP, private equity, or another vendor, I hope that ALU Enterprise's customers will continue to have a trusted partner.
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Collaboration & UC: The Difference & the Relationship
You can communicate without collaborating, but you can't collaborate without communicating.
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"Trust But Verify"-- A Lesson Learned with Managed Services
Systems and people fail. What matters most is the "safety net" you've built internally and with the vendors who maintain your systems.
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Energy Watch Dogs
The energy watch dogs have only revenue interest in mind and the policies and actions/inactions attest to this.
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Is Apple the Future of UC?
Apple can define the UC space so completely that anyone in it is either a slave to Apple's positioning, or is irrelevant. Apple could also walk away from UC. completely
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If it Could Happen to Them...
Enterprises are increasingly exposed to voice-based IP attacks such as voice spam, vishing (voice phishing), spoofing, toll fraud, IP packet eavesdropping and TDoS.
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FMC: Strong Growth, Despite Unmet Potential
FMC continues to offer significant cost savings, and as enterprises recognize those ROI benefits, we expect a compound annual growth rate of around 53 percent.
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The IEEE Gets into Cloud Interoperability
It’s going to happen one day: You want to move a workload from one cloud service provider another provider seamlessly. There'll need to be a standard to support the move.
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Mitel Delivers Mobile UC on Android with Location-based Presence
It's interesting to note that we are seeing this type of capability introduced first by the smaller rather than the larger suppliers.
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LifeSize Adds 600 Million Users
The integration represents the boldest and most significant move for Skype's foray into the enterprise.
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Interactive Intelligence's Next Frontier: EMEA
Interactive Intelligence believes there is real opportunity for them to grow their EMEA revenues substantially over the next few years.
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Tablets Coming to a Garage Sale Near You
The Tablet PC as we know it today may have a short life.
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iPad2 Rocks School With Student Pilot Program
Apple's iPad2 is rocking education. Information for students won’t be limited to printed static textbooks. Collaboration won’t be discouraged but expanded.
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RIM's PlayBook is in Play
I think I'm going to wait to see what we get in under-$500 Android tablets before I take the plunge on a PlayBook.
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If I Was Tom Burns...
...And I were in charge of Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise division, I'd want the business unit to be sold to HP (assuming it's going to be sold). Here's why.
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Then and Now; The Consultants' View
Consultants and their clients have had to learn a number of new concepts.
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Alcatel-Lucent Reportedly May Sell Enterprise Unit
The business unit is growing, but still represents a small part of the parent company's overall revenue.
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