Bringing IP Telephony and Unified Communications Together: IPT/UC
April 26, 2013Communication systems continue to evolve from legacy voice-centric heritage to enriched multi-media collaboration sessions equipped with presence, IM, video conferencing, and desktop sharing. IP telephony (IPT) has become the new foundation of communication with between employees, and increasingly across the … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged ip-telephony, ipt, telephony, uc, unified-communications, voip | Leave a comment
The Future of Video Conferencing Solutions – Connectivity & Integration
April 25, 2013Many organizations look to deploy a video conferencing (VC) solution in order to better meet business collaboration needs, address rising travel costs, and reduce travel time. Often businesses neglect to take into consideration of the advantages of having advanced features … Continue reading
Posted in Analyst's Angle, Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged ipt, mobile, smartphones, tablets, uc, vc, video, video-conferencing | Leave a comment
It isn’t easy being [a] Green [Screen]
April 12, 2013Modernization is a hot topic these days for legacy applications, but is being green really so bad? If you are going to modernize, make sure it’s driven by sound business reasons, not just perception. Otherwise, you’re just putting lipstick … Continue reading
Posted in Analyst's Angle, Applications, News & Analysis, Research | Tagged AS/400, green screen, ibm, IBM i, iseries, legacy, Mainframe, modernize, System z | Comments Off
Splitting Heirs to Mid-range Backup Leadership
March 13, 2013A difficulty in analyzing the mid-market or the mid-range in any area of information technology is that the mid-range often doesn’t work as one uniform category. This year, for example, we decided to subdivide the mid-range storage landscape into two. … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged Acronis, ARCServe, Avamar, Backup and Recovery, CA Technologies, Cloud Backup, CommVault, Continuous Data Protection, Data Protector, Data Recovery, Data Reduction, Deduplication, disaster-recovery, emc, falconstor, hp, ibm, Integrated Backup, Netapp, NetBackup, NetWorker, NSB, rpo, rto, Simpana, Symantec, Syncsort, Tivoli Storage Manager, TSM | 1 Comment
Don’t let cloud databases rain on your data security
March 6, 2013Databases have long been the exception to the cloud stack consisting of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. However, vendors have started to offer cloud databases in an as-a-service model, making them a more enterprise-ready solution. As a fully managed service, DBaaS … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged cloud database, data, database, Database as a Service, database management, DBaaS, nosql, sharding, SQL | Comments Off
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