Tag: services

  • Avaya Aura Customized for Branch Offices, Midsize

    Chris Talbot

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    Avaya is filling two gaps in its Aura unified communications product line versions for mid-size enterprises and for branch offices. Mid-sized enterprises and branch offices need collaboration solutions with smaller footprints than what is available from Avaya Aura Core, as well as easier management, said Ingrid Tremblay, director of unified communications product marketing for Avaya… Read more

  • Embracing Social Media as a Smart Business Tool

    Pedro Pereira

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    Sometimes Facebook, as well as other social networking media, is annoying. Narcissism pours out of the screen, and it’s all I can do to stop myself from de-friending people who seem bent on sharing every last mundane detail of their lives with the world. My frustrations with the medium aside, evidence suggests social media is… Read more

  • Don’t Let Time Run Out on Your Opportunities

    Channel Insider Staff

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    When the buzzer goes off, the game is over, time has run out, and there’s a winner and a loser. Which side are you going to be on? This week more than most, the concept of time becomes headline news.  As March Madness falls upon us, time is usually explained to us in a disparaging… Read more

  • IDC: The Time to Embrace Cloud Computing is Now

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SAN JOSE, Calif.—IDC’s frontman, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst Frank Gens, sees a significant fork in the IT road in 2011 similar to one that happened 25 years ago. Back in 1986, PCs and desktop computers were 5 years old and starting to work their way into daily use in dedicated enterprise networks and… Read more

  • Amazon Revamps Its Virtual Private Cloud Service

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Amazon Web Services, which launched its first product (Simple Storage Service) five years ago this month, revealed March 15 that it has redesigned the access to its Virtual Private Cloud service. Users now can set up their own virtual networks within the Amazon cloud that they can control just as they control their own physical… Read more

  • Green IT, Cloud Computing to Impact Data Centers: Report

    Nathan Eddy

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    According to IT research firm Gartner, Inc., four forces currently operating in the market could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the decade is out. These include smarter designs, energy efficiency pressures (or green IT), the realities of high-density environments, and the potential of cloud computing. The company recommended that… Read more