This 27-page detailed publication delivers the information needed to evaluate Unified Communications vendors. Gartner evaluates UC using a framework of six broad communications functions, including: voice & telephony, conferencing, messaging, presence & IM, clients, and communications applications.
Unified Communications vendor ratings, along with their strengths and cautions, are provided.
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Total cost of ownership analysis
The top 6 characteristics to look for in a UC solution
From the Gartner Files: MarketScope for Unified Communications for the SMB Market, North America
Criteria you need to include in your evaluation of UC solutions
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.
Mobile workers want to get connected and be productive anywhere, at any time, often at any cost. Enterprise mobility is often a hidden ?black? budget in your company. There are many economic levers that can impact your mobility costs. With this white paper, learn:
Short-term cost reduction opportunities
Longer term strategies to control and reduce costs
Appropriate security policies for your mobile workforce
Ensure that your traveling employees are productive everywhere, even while you control cost and security.
This industry IT survey provides insight into usage and cost trends, recommendations and a policy guide for managing enterprise mobility for IT Management and CIOs. You will find data on a broad range of mobile connectivity issues, including:
68 percent of IT managers believe their mobility costs will go up over the next 12 months.
The majority believe their companies need to update polices regarding employee connectivity; and 65 percent believe they need to update security policies.
Tablets are quickly gaining momentum, either as a replacement for a laptop or as an additional mobile device. 81 percent of enterprises support the use of tablets by executives and 57 percent for sales representatives.
Find out how your organization compares and what you can do to manage connectivity to ensure mobile worker productivity and control costs.
Enterprise employees are more mobile, and they want to be just as productive whether they're in the office or on the road. They may use any means to get connected, often creating financial and security risks for your company; not to mention a management nightmare for IT. This paper includes:
Trends driving changes in mobile connectivity
Ten steps to get you started
Three approaches for managing mobility
These 10 steps help you put together a comprehensive strategy in this fast-changing environment.
Date: February, 14, 2012 Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am PT; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
Citrix will also provide you with tools to reshape your architecture and deliver ?cloud-savvy? network capabilities-- with greater security, scalability and flexibility. Attend this webinar and learn:
How virtualization and cloud are changing data center and network architectures
Techniques to flexibly deploy network services into cloud-based data center and network architectures
How to consolidate key parts of your network without compromising performance or security
Ways to improve visibility, security and control of cloud-based applications and infrastructure
This white paper tells you how to understand the benefits of UC in your organization, identify the preferred modes and means of communications, and then use that criterion as a guide to seek out the best UC solution.
Most organizations find that UC enhances user productivity or business processes - or both.
UC for user productivity (UC-U) concentrates on helping individual users better manage their communications. These UC capabilities include as presence status, click-to-communicate, instant messaging, and rapid set up of audio, video and Web conferences.
UC for business processes (UC-B) focuses on integrating communications capabilities within workflows and processes in order to enhance business activities.
Many organizations begin by focusing on using UC to enhance user productivity, but they soon find that both productivity and business processes can be improved by UC.
To achieve breakthrough results, it's important to think about communications in a new way. Unified communications is not so much a system as it is a way of thinking about the impact of the next generation of communications capabilities on businesses large and small. This white paper helps you change your thinking.
RIPv2 was created in 1998 to overcome the limitations of RIPv1 and to add some additional features. There are 10 simple rules to how RIPv2 works. They are detailed in this white paper with configuration, or output, examples taken from a Cisco Systems router.
The appeal of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunks as a means of connecting Unified Communication Systems to the outside world is growing in popularity.
SIP trunks offer significant benefits over legacy PRI trunks, including:
lower operating costs
more flexibility in ordering service and capacities
advanced features, such as virtual phone numbers in different geographies
Since SIP trunks use IP-based protocols that require a system to be opened up to a wide area network (WAN) that should be assumed insecure, organizations must educate themselves about the salient security aspects pertaining to SIP trunks and how to ensure the appropriate level of security.
This white paper examines security considerations for SIP trunks, and provides valuable information and insight into the security options available today.
