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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Unified Communications (UC): together or separate at your company?
VoIP is often seen as "the" path toward UC, but UC is possible without VoIP. So is VoIP worth pursuing for its own benefits, whether or not UC is a goal? Or is UC the goal, with or without VoIP?
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Bil Moore, 5 Groups
VoIP creates a much more viable foundation for UC to build upon, but they are by no means married. From what I see with clients, most VoIP projects ar ...
What's in a modern data center -- and where is it?
I'm speaking at Data Center World in Nashville next month, and have begun wondering about the modern data center. Traditionally, data centers have been full of mainframes, minicomputers and/or servers ...
Latest post:
March 5, 2010
Timothy Loftus, 2 Groups
For insight into data center direction see 'The Pitfalls of Outsourcing' at URL: http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Specials/Cloud-Computing/The-Pitfa ...
Unified Communications: what's it going to take at your company?
Unified communications (UC) promises many potentially significant business benefits, especially to mobile users. Most frequently mentioned among these include a single inbox for voice, e-mail and othe ...
Latest post:
March 3, 2010
Bil Moore, 5 Groups
In this economic climate, if a quick ROI can be realized, companies will jump into a technology. The main inhibitor to most companies implementing UC ...
Where do open source IT solutions make the most sense, and what are your favorites?
Editors at Focus recently published "Open Source, Open World," a time line of open source developments in multiple fields across the globe (at http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/open-sour ...
Latest post:
March 2, 2010
Chris Deel, 3 Groups
In addition I have used Open Source in VoIP phone applications (Asterisk) and as part of a SaaS environments (not mine, in my vendor's, so I am using ...
Can CA acquire its way into cloud management market leadership?
Since mid-2009, CA (the former Computer Associates) has acquired data center automation assets and expertise from Cassatt, as well as the companies NetQoS (network performance management and service d ...
Latest post:
Feb. 24, 2010
chris burd, 2 Groups
I do not believe they can, CA has not really entered the big boy arena till recently. They are now stepping up to companies that are doing this in ta ...
Are "green" issues affecting IT decisions at your company?
"Green" issues such as power and cooling costs have been a concern in large data centers for some time. But energy costs are (or should be) important to companies of all sizes, and growing numbers of ...
Real-time IT asset management: "business-critical" or just "nice to have?"
I'm preparing to go to Data Center World in Nashville next month, and will be speaking on a panel about real-time asset management -- the ability to know everything important about high-value IT asset ...
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