Tips

Tips

• Three drivers suggest need for flexible UC reference architecture

  New video, voice and cloud influences are pointing to the need for a new UC reference architecture that is flexible enough to meet different business needs and strategies.  Continue Reading

• Video collaboration usage policies should consider user experiences

  The pros and cons of video collaboration should be assessed by weighing user experience against factors like cost to create informed enterprise video usage policies.  Continue Reading

• Compare free UC from Skype and Google Voice to business phone systems

  To use free UC features from Skype and Google Voice, small businesses must be aware of five major differences from business phone systems.  Continue Reading

• Integrating mobile device management with UC systems and features

  Businesses need a plan to integrate their existing UC systems with their mobile device management and BYOD policy; building a matrix can give the project a logical start.  Continue Reading

• Tackling virtual UC and VDI for the distributed enterprise

  Virtual UC applications are being deployed beyond the data center into the distributed enterprise and should be planned with virtual desktop infrastructure deployment.  Continue Reading

• Integrating cloud-based UC applications for the branch office

  As enterprises consider cloud-based UC applications for the branch office, they face integration issues between the cloud- and premises-based UC applications.  Continue Reading

• Free collaboration tools a la Google spur better enterprise UC apps

  Rather than eclipsing enterprise collaboration tools and UC apps, free collaboration tools are prompting commercial vendors to improve security and integration.  Continue Reading

• The iPad effect: Changing enterprise video-conferencing strategy

  To incorporate the iPad into your enterprise video-conferencing strategy, check the network impact, buy the right tools, educate your users and check the competition.  Continue Reading

• Extranet and desktop video requirements drive 2012 telepresence trends

  As visual collaboration needs grow, desktop and extranet video deployments create more enterprise bandwidth and performance management concerns than telepresence rooms.  Continue Reading

• Hosted UC, UCaaS offer five major advantages over on-prem UC

  Hosted unified communications or Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solutions offer five main advantages over on-premises deployments in the new IT reality.  Continue Reading

• SIP trunking service adoption growth driven by WAN strategy alignment

  As SIP trunking adoption increases, more enterprises want to align the technology with their WAN strategies. Learn about the benefits and challenges of that alignment.  Continue Reading

• Communication and collaboration in 2020: Inside UC's faster future

  By 2020, communication and collaboration advances like voice command, quick response codes and cloud adoption will streamline workplace interaction and simplify regular tasks.  Continue Reading

• The future of unified communications: Forget 2012, how about 2020?

  The unified communications market will evolve radically by 2020, fueled in part by mobile broadband and cloud services adoption.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 unified communications stories and shakeups of 2011

  The top 10 unified communications stories and shakeups of 2011 include the UC innovations and vendor shakeups of the new UC era taking shape.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 unified communications stories of 2011

  The top 10 unified communications stories of 2011 reveal key drivers to a new UC era.  Continue Reading