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Ulitimately, unified communications should make end users more productive. So how do you bring the rogue users into the plan, and how do you get the resisters to use it? These topics complete our Unified Communications whiteboard tutorial series.

In the 4th part of our Whiteboard Tutorial series on Unified Communication, Michael Healey, of Yeoman Technologies, discusses the importance of security and compliance, and how you need to think about this from day one with policies and training.

Michael Healey talks about the vital components in a unified communications infrastructure, including the need to have your voice, network, apps and security teams working together to ensure a quality of service that meets customer expectations.

Michael Healy talks about the tradeoffs of moving unified communications to the cloud vs keeping things internal -- namely, the cloud provides an economic benefit and scalable reach, but internal systems offer more predictable performance.

Most people think of just the cost savings associated with Unified Communications, but the real challenge is how to bring together voice, video, data and presence across phones, laptops and mobile devices, and get better information because of it.

Kevin DeMers, Senior Manager of Unified Communications at CDW talks about the benefits of unified communications, some of the technology involved, the typical migration path, several advanced applications, and provides a customer example.

Avaya has introduced Aura, a "breakthrough architecture" that lets companies integrate communications that are multimodal, multi-location and multi-vendor onto a common IP backbone. We talked to several Avaya executives about this bold move.

This session identifies the issues facing both buyers and sellers as they migrate from traditional hardware to software-based architectures and unified communications.

Phil Fasano, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente Information Technology

Bruce Morse, Vice President, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM delivers a keynote address at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008.

There are a whole new set of online tools and services like blogs, wikis and Facebook that are now part of the popular culture. This session will explore their role in a much different environment - within the enterprise.

Betsy Frost Webb, the General Manager of Unified Communications Marketing at Microsoft, delivers a keynote from VoiceCon San Francisco 2008.

Charles Giancarlo, Chief Executive Officer of Avaya, delivers the opening keynote address at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008.

If you have a distributed workforce that uses Microsoft's Exchange for mobility solutions, BlackBerry messaging, extensive archiving, and even unified messaging, you might want to consider a startup like Teneros.

Avaya wants its technologies to enable business process re-engineering for better efficiency through communications enabled applications

Chambers sees web 2.0 technologies in general and its Telepresence technology in particular as boosting worker productivity

The startup targets mid-market broadband providers

Agito's router helps mobile workers keep connected while keeping costs inline with a combination of hardware and middleware applications.

Want to get your voicemail messages delivered via e-mail to your smartphone? Check out this 'visual voicemail' service

Motorola and Others Talk To Us at Cable Show 2008 About Docsis 3.0, Switched Digital Video, HFC and more

Motorola and Others Talk To Us at Cable Show 2008 About the Changing Television Experience, Including Time and Place Shifting, Targetted Content and Advertising and more

Motorola and Others Talk at Cable Show 2008 About The Trends and the Technology Behind Device and Time Shifted Content

Comcast CTO Talks About Tru2Way, Digital Channels, WiMax and What Else We Can Expect From This Leading Cable Operator

Cox Video Engineering VP Talks to Light Reading About the Company's Direction In Tru2Way, Bandwidth Management and Other Key Areas

CableLabs CEO Talks to Light Reading About Tru2Way, Docsis 3.0, WiMax and More

At the 2008 Cable Show, ACA President Matt Polka Talks About The Challenges That Smaller Cable Companies Face

At the 2008 Cable Show, Many of the Cable Operators Talked about WiMax; Finally A Semblance of a Wireless Strategy?

The Battle Between Telcos and Cable Raged on at the 2008 Cable Show

The 2008 Cable Show Was a Tru2Way Announcement Parade. Here, Several Cable Company Execs Talk About Their Plans and the Impact of Tru2Way

A Pictoral Look at the 2008 Cable Show in New Orleans

Alcatel-Lucent Pushed Its OmniTouch Advanced Communications Server at Interop 2008, Where It Was a Finalist for Best of Interop

LifeSize CEO Craig Malloy articulates how his company differentiates from giants like Microsoft, and how's it's aiming to make hi-def, high-quality video as broadly available as possible.

If you have a distributed workforce that uses Microsoft's Exchange for mobility solutions, BlackBerry messaging, extensive archiving, and even unified messaging, you might want to consider a startup like Teneros.

Siemens has an end-to-end HD videoconference solution that can outfit a desktop, a meeting room, a board room and more.