New advances in communication technologies have made Unified Communications (UC) a powerful tool for businesses of any size. Evaluating new UC solutions can be challenging as email, faxing, voice, video conferencing, and more are merged into a single product. This vendor comparison helps the UC buyer highlight key features of industry leaders like Avaya, ShoreTel, Cisco, Interactive Intelligence, and Mitel.
The changes in VMware View 5 include enhancing the performance of the PC over IP protocol (PCoIP) to connect users to their virtual desktops, allowing much greater optimization on throttling and caching than there was in the previous version. VMware states that these changes alone can result in up to 75% bandwidth reduction over the previous version.
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Virtual Port Channel (VPC) takes redundancy to a new level in the data center. With the right equipment, you can leverage the functionalities of VPC by making all available paths usable and giving all the bandwidth that you have to your hosts. This white paper reviews the basics of VPC and the options available to tailor it for your needs.
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Back in 2005 a research firm predicted mobile payments would total $10 billion by 2010. The actual total was nearly $100 billion, and it is expected to be double that in 2011. Retailers that have already made their initial forays into mobile commerce--and those few still on the sidelines--are seeing the need to move their initiatives to the next level, by applying mobile-specific measurement and achieving true differentiation from their competitors in order to grow significant sales. This Mobile Commerce Roadmap will provide signposts to point the way to Mobile Commerce 2.0.
Now, strong offerings from Google and Microsoft have made the switch a reality for many organizations. However, even with the backing of such large companies, these hosted products are not perfect. Like other hosted products, there are still going to be shortcomings in implementation. Luckily, these shortcomings can be overcome, and a hosted deployment can become just as secure, compliant, and redundant as a traditional, on-premise solution. This paper will discuss the many drivers for organizations looking at moving email to the cloud. It will highlight some of the shortcomings and pitfalls of these hosted solutions and provide important considerations for organizations looking to move their infrastructure to a hosted solution.
But all this poses new challenges for IT departments who must monitor and secure the online interactions of these highly distributed and roaming workers.
This white paper delves into the following topics:
More Users Are Working Outside of the Traditional Office
Growing litigation and compliance demands have only compounded data retention and retrieval problems, leading to new cloud-based archiving options that better manage costs while transferring risk and complexity. Cloud-based archives offer the cost savings, ease of use, and scalability of the cloud coupled with best-of-breed security from a trusted provider for defensibly handling high-risk enterprise data.
In a side-by-side comparison of these two solutions, this white paper demonstrates that organizations in need of comprehensive UC solutions can avoid Cisco product shortfalls.
The flagship Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) solution was assembled with technologies accumulated from several corporate acquisitions. The result is a complex solution that provides multiple user interfaces and requires extensive resources to manage. The ShoreTel UC system, by contrast, was designed to provide a single, all-in-one solution.
Offering a seamless, integrated environment for users, and a unified, easily managed solution for IT administrators, the ShoreTel UC system integrates a full range of communications capabilities, including voice, video, instant messaging, and conferencing, plus advanced tools for mobility, presence detection, and collaboration.
These factors enable businesses to capitalize on the benefits of unified communications without adding costs or complexity.
