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  • Spare cloud capacity creates opportunities for CIOs

    Cloud computing is becoming a mainstream technology. However, cloud providers are beginning to see price pressure to reduce their costs to remain competitive.

  • Five focus areas to keep Avaya in the race

    New Avaya data networking chief Marc Randall has five focus areas in his sights to help the company sell its Ethernet switches, gain market share... and perhaps stave off irrelevancy.

  • Five reasons your business needs unified communications

    There are so many different ways to communicate with partners, customers and co-workers: by phone, email, instant messaging, fax, video conferencing and social media. Managing each system separately is not only inefficient, but can cause conflicts since they all use the same underlying technology, the Internet.

  • The perils of keeping a mobile workforce connected abroad

    It's been a rough time of late for global business travellers who need to stay in touch.

  • Lync is a key high point in Office 365

    After more than eight months of hype from Microsoft and analysis, Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite, Office 365, formally goes live Tuesday with Microsoft launch events from New York and around the world.

  • Mobile phones poised to replace traditional desktop handsets

    Time to dump that dusty old desktop telephone hand set? The research analysts at Gartner are predicting that the mobile phone will become the primary communication device for business use over the course of the next several years, replacing the corded desktop phones that have been a fixture in offices since the early 1900s.

  • Corporate PBX is still alive and kicking

    The role of the PBX is changing in importance, but it's still too early to issue a death certificate, according to Infonetics.

  • Vendors fight it out over desktop virtualisation

    There is so much competition for what computer companies perceive as a tremendous growth opportunity in desktop virtualisation that the leading virtual desktop vendors have taken to re-announcing packages and products to highlight small improvements and garner some attention.

  • A simple guide to Microsoft Lync

    Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform that, like competitive products, promises to change the way businesses do business by integrating a range of existing communications and collaboration technologies.

  • Three reasons to say no to Facebook Messaging

    Facebook's Monday announcement of its "social inbox" plan drew a lot of criticism from skeptics. Here are three reasons why that skepticism is warranted for business users.





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Voice In The Cloud

It could be argued that Microsoft Lync, the latest and potentially most significant Unified Communications (UC) offering has the most to gain from the accelerated growth of SIP Trunking in the UK. Read more
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2013 Killer Apps

IT departments are witnessing change at a pace never seen before. Transformation is occurring as CIOs seek to access the benefits offered by unified communications, cloud computing, internet-based applications and consolidation, amongst many other strategic projects. Download this white paper to find out why you should address the application performance management challenge.
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Quantifying the Key Benefits of Unified Communications (UC)

Building a clear and defendable business case for UC investments can be a difficult proposition. Even a well thought out business case can fall subject to question and debate, especially when the case relies heavily on productivity-related savings.
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How unified communications pays for itself

Today?s IT investments require bottom-line, quantifiable truths. Unified communications (UC) is no exception. Moving to UC means not only determining which solution best fits your organisations needs ? but means creating a solid business case that demonstrates a strong return on investment (ROI) and a low total cost of ownership (TCO). Download this white paper to understand the benefits of UC in your organisation, identify the preferred modes and means of communications, and then use that criterion as a guide to seek out the best UC solution.
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Top 10 Reasons to Consider Hosted Collaboration Solutions

See why ROI potential has made unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) a top IT priority. Learn how cloud-based UC&C can boost productivity, overcome skill-set gaps, and lower TCO up to 40% with real-time, global deployment.
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