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Avaya Touts Nortel Enterprise Solutions Acquisition
Avaya has signed an agreement to acquire Nortel Enterprise Solutions, the latter’s enterprise solutions business, for $475 million. According to Avaya, the acquisition agreement is a big step in strengthening its position in the business communications market and also in its ability to provide enterprise communications solutions to customers. Avaya was unable to comment on…
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Getting Serious about Unified Communications Integration
It’s going to be almost impossible for any company to maintain a homogenous unified communications environment. Either because of acquisitions or simply the need to be able to communicate with other organizations that have standardized on another platform, unified communications almost by definition is heterogeneous. But providers of unified communications offerings have been slow to…
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Internet of Things Creates Interesting New Channel Possibilities
When it comes to providing IT services a lot of solution providers tend to focus their energies on back-office opportunities. But as the so-called “Internet of Things” continues to get more robust, it’s starting to looks like integration of back-office systems with any number of types of embedded systems may turn out to be a…
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Unisys Is Looking for a Few Good IT Security Partners
Although organizations have been stealing intellectual property form each other as long as there have been organizations, the speed and scope at which that property can be stolen has business owners on edge. Companies are spending millions, sometimes billions of dollars, on researching and developing new products, only to see the systems that contain that…
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Networking as the Next Great Opportunity for the Channel in the Cloud
The history of computing can be defined by the movement of bottleneck around the data center. Every time a bottleneck appears a massive opportunity emerges for the channel. The next great bottleneck is going to be the networking layer in the cloud. A recent survey of 1,300 IT professionals conducted by Cisco finds that the…