WEBCAST - In this technical webinar you'll learn key things to consider as part of a business migration to voice-over-IP – designing your data network for QOS, traffic analysis and capacity planning, four possible architecture models, security requirements, and VoIP design components.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 19, 2009


Topics:  Converged Networks | IP | IP Networks | LAN Telephony | Network Convergence | Network Management | Unified Messaging | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - Growth rises on the horizon for many small businesses, and one seizes the day, expansion often occurs rapidly. Preparation is crucial to success. What tools are required for a company with 20 employees, for example, to grow to 100 employees within a year? Read this paper to learn more...
Posted: August 14, 2009 | Published: August 14, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | IP Networks | IP Telephony | Remote Access Hardware | Remote Access Software | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems | VPN

WHITE PAPER - Small businesses in particular have to do more with less, without compromising the ability to deliver quality products and services to their customers. Unified communications and Web 2.0 collaboration tools can help your employees be more productive right from their desktops, simply, easily, and cost-effectively.
Posted: August 14, 2009 | Published: August 14, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software | Small Businesses | Teleconferencing Software | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research for the global market intelligence firm IDC, recently talked to Cisco® about how companies can use unified communications to successfully conduct business in multiple countries - with or without offices in those countries.
Posted: August 14, 2009 | Published: August 14, 2009


Topics:  Collaborative Applications Software | IP Networks | IP Telephony | Rich Media Formats | Small Businesses | SMBs | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems

WHITE PAPER - This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 29, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems | Voice Mail Software | Voice Networking | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - To determine the return on investment (ROI) associated with the implementation of an HP ProCurve UWW network solution, IDC conducted a study of eight organizations world wide that have successfully performed HP ProCurve UWW implementations and are running the solution in their production environments today. This paper gives the results.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 29, 2008


Topics:  Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems | VoIP | Wireless Applications Software | Wireless Computing | Wireless Messaging | Wireless Telephony Systems | Wireless WAN

WHITE PAPER - There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Published: July 27, 2009


Topics:  Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software | Edge Computing | Email Management Software | Email Server Software | Messaging Software | Microsoft Exchange | Software Licensing | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems

WHITE PAPER - Modern packet-based communications are sweeping away traditional telephony standards and changing the way businesses stay connected. SIP, the latest IP enabler to hit the market, is often portrayed as the key to implementing more sophisticated, flexible voice and unified communications. But is that a fact, or merely well-publicized fiction?
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  IP Phones | IP Services | IP Telephony | Packet Switching | SIP | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems

EZINE - Meeting regulatory requirements means that administrators must carve out a sound email-archiving policy; making the wrong move can be costly. In this issue, you'll learn what to do and what not to do when planning your email-archiving strategy.
Posted: July 14, 2009 | Published: July 14, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software | Email Management | Email Server Software | Indexing (Information Management) | Messaging Security | Microsoft Exchange | Unified Messaging

IT BRIEFING - In this IT briefing, Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Enterprise Research from Yankee Group, will define unified communications, provide an overview of cloud computing based UC services, describe the corporate benefits of cloud computing and provide practical advice for companies that want to explore this as a viable deployment option.
Posted: June 24, 2009 | Published: June 24, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Software as a Service | Software Virtualization | Unified Messaging

WEBCAST - In this webcast, Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Enterprise Research from Yankee Group, will define unified communications, provide an overview of cloud computing based UC services, describe the corporate benefits of cloud computing and provide practical advice for companies that want to explore this as a viable deployment option.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Premiered: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Software as a Service | Software Virtualization | Unified Messaging

WEBCAST - Join Mark Urban, Director of Product Marketing for Application and Visibility, for a quick look at acceleration, what are the issues driving the need for WAN Optimization and Acceleration, and how Blue Coat fits in.
Posted: June 3, 2009 | Premiered: June 3, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Network Management | Network Performance | Server Accelerators | SSL | Unified Messaging | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This IDC Insight provides an overview of the culture change considerations that end users should consider before adapting a UC solution.
Posted: June 3, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Cloud Computing | Email | Human Resources Management | Infrastructure Management | Lotus Notes | Unified Messaging

EGUIDE - VoIP, and IP networks in general, work better when they can connect directly to other IP networks. However, there are challenges to skirting the PSTN altogether. This E-Guide covers the pitfalls of VoIP islands; the challenges associated with moving away from the PSTN; and ultimately how to get the most from your IP network.
Posted: May 29, 2009 | Published: May 29, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | IP | IP Networks | IP Telephony | Network Performance | PSTN | Telecommunications Carrier Systems | Telecommunications Networks | Unified Messaging | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming.
Posted: May 26, 2009 | Published: May 26, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Collaboration | Instant Messaging | Instant Messaging Software | RSS | SaaS ERP | Software as a Service | Telephony Systems | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems | Web 2.0 | Wikis