Unified Communications Security Measures: Ensuring Peace of Mind

The decision to invest in new technology should never be taken lightly. From calculating ROI to anticipating and negotiating contracts and changes in infrastructure, there are a multitude of factors to consider when making the transition to a new or upgraded communication service. Yet while financial and infrastructure decisions are ultimately major factors in a company’s choice of deployment, another significant area is often overlooked— the impact that a new solution will have on your company’s security.
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The Unified Communications Buyer’s Guide to Picking the Right Cloud Telephony Solution

There’s no better time for a business to embrace unified communications solutions. Actually, that’s not entirely true – several years ago would probably have been a better time. After all, these tools offer major benefits to businesses of all kinds, from the largest enterprises to the smallest shops. With a UC system in place, an organization’s employees can become more collaborative, more efficient, and happier. The sooner a company starts to take advantage of these possibilities, the better.

For those firms that have yet to embrace UC, though, one of the most important steps they must take is choosing a particular solution. While UC as a general concept is fairly straightforward and consistent, there is a tremendous amount of variety between the various services available. Here are some important considerations to keep in mind when evaluating available UC options.

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6 Questions for a Prospective Cloud Service Provider

In order to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must constantly improve customer service, reduce IT overhead, and increase efficiency—frequently with fewer resources than before. This may seem like an impossible feat, but the advent of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) has enabled IT departments to be viewed as business drivers rather than cost centers.

Companies looking to take advantage of a cloud UC strategy need to consider the move from a myriad of business perspectives. “How will Provider X’s solution serve specific departmental needs as well as the requirements of the organization as a whole?” “Will Provider Y be able to better equip us with the required tools to streamline processes and increase collaboration?”

Here are six additional questions to ask any potential UCaaS provider before making a decision.

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Affordable, Scalable, Reliable OLTP in a Cloud and Big Data World: IBM DB2 pureScale

This white paper discusses the concept of shared data scale-out clusters, as well as how they deliver continuous availability and why they are important for delivering scalable transaction processing support. It also contrasts this approach, taken in a relational database context, with clustering approaches employed by NoSQL databases and Hadoop applications, showing the importance It goes on to discuss the specific advantages offered by IBM's DB2 pureScale, which is designed to deliver the power of server scale-out architecture, enabling enterprises to affordably develop and manage transactional databases that can meet the requirements of a cloud-based world with rapid transaction data growth, in an affordable manner.

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Data Warehousing Shifts: Hadoop and Analytic tools move to the Cloud

This IT Managers Journal looks at how enterprises are leveraging the power of Hadoop and the evolving Big Data ecosystem to rapidly extract the information needed to speed business decision-making in today’s hybrid data environments.

Slashdot’s editors will provide a POV on the importance of leveraging Hadoop as part of a data warehousing solution whether Cloud, hybrid or on-premises, and will present several other assets that highlight the bottom-line benefits of these new approaches.

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Live Event: Cloud & SDN – What It Means For Your Wi-Fi

The rapid evolution of networking solutions and the impact of macro technology trends makes future-proofing your infrastructure more complex than ever. With hype around Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Cloud reaching tipping point, what impact do these technologies have on the future design, deployment, and support of your wireless LAN infrastructure?

Join us on Thursday, 21 January 2016 to explore the possibilities and chart Wi-Fi’s evolutionary path to determine where best to place your bets in 2016 and beyond.

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Securing cloud application usage across the enterprise

Security requirements are still stalling the broader adoption of cloud applications. Organizations need to be able to see, control and monitor cloud application usage to help protect against cloud-delivered threats, policy violations and risky user behavior. One of the key challenges is that on-premises security products have a technology gap when it comes to cloud application usage and visibility.

IBM® Cloud Security Enforcer addresses these technology gaps with a new SaaS solution designed to meet the significant challenges of cloud visibility and security.
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CIO Guide: Hybrid Cloud Use Cases That Reduce TCO and Drive Business Value

This CIO Guide examines several innovative solutions from NetApp that enable organizations to leverage Microsoft Azure in a hybrid cloud environment. NetApp AltaVault helps organizations to lower costs and reduces backup and archiving risks, while NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure improves disaster recovery and deploys primary enterprise workloads.
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Your BT Agenda Demands A Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy

This Forrester research report emphasizes that how CIOs handle storage will heavily influence their cloud success. Henry Baltazar of Forrester claims that although the road to hybrid clouds will not be short or easy, hybrid clouds are the future state of compute and storage for enterprises.
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