Moving Beyond Spreadsheets and Diagrams: Getting Started with Data Center Infrastructure Management
[ Source: Nlyte Software ]
November 2012-
Many data center managers try to manage their dynamic environments with little more than spreadsheets and a few CAD diagrams. But as data centers have grown in size and complexity, managing this way has become increasingly difficult. Fortunately, there are many good Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions now available.
One of the challenges many companies face getting started with DCIM is that they are afraid that implementing a full scale DCIM solution ...
Drivers for Enterprise Virtualization Diversification
[ Source: Red Hat ]
October 2012-
A 2011 CIO Quick Pulse study found that nearly 75% of respondents who already have virtualization implemented into their datacenters have either already deployed a second vendor virtualization solution or are planning to. As the virtualization market matures, you would expect an increase in solution offerings through greater competition, resulting in lower product solution costs. Unfortunately, the proprietary virtualization software competitors are doing quite the opposite, driving up the costs of their proprietary solutions while simultaneously removing ...
Aberdeen Research: Unified Communications - Unleashing Transformation, Efficiency, Collaboration & Compliance
[ Source: Siemens Enterprise Communications ]
March 2010-
With so many potential points of contact – desk phones, soft phones, voice messaging, email, videoconferencing, texting, social media, mobile devices – how can we ever actually be reached within a reasonable timeframe? How does Unified Communications transform an organization’s communications infrastructure, improve efficiency, optimize work processes, and provide for business continuity and compliance? To find out, Aberdeen Group surveyed 184 organizations in more than 28 countries around the world.
Using key performance criteria to distinguish ...
Frost & Sullivan: Finding the Value in Unified Communications -- Understanding the Hierarchy of Return
[ Source: Siemens Enterprise Communications ]
January 2011-
To stay competitive in an increasingly global workplace, companies today must find ways to allow and encourage their employees to communicate and collaborate anytime, anywhere, and from any device. Unified communications and collaboration—an integrated set of voice, video and Web collaboration applications—can enable advanced communications among employees, customers and business partners. But as is true with any technology deployment, IT and telecom executives must be able to justify the necessary investment—and demonstrating ...
Unified Communications Can Change Your Outlook - Making Your Small to Midsize Business Better
[ Source: Siemens Enterprise Communications ]
December 2009-
The goal of unified communications is simple: to make it easy and cost effective for employees to reach one another—as well as business partners and customers—as soon as they need to, wherever they are. The idea is to merge two or more communications into one user interface, allowing users to see whether someone is available for a phone call, conference or IM chat, and then to contact them in the most appropriate way. ...
The Proven Financial Benefits of SIP Trunk Consolidation
[ Source: Siemens Enterprise Communications ]
November 2010-
Siemens Enterprise Communications continues to lead the evolution of real-time unified communications by delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions with measurable financial benefits, and has proven both the technology and the savings for customers. Best of all, our open, standards-based solutions can overlay in-place PBX networks to speed ROI -- without the need for untimely rip-and-replace migrations.
In this paper, we’ll introduce the mechanisms of cost savings with SIP trunk consolidation, using Siemens ...
India Wireless Broadband Operator Options
[ Source: Savitar Research Group ]
August 2010-
Today, one of the biggest decisions operators face has a technology choice at its heart. LTE or WiMax?
This harkens back to many of the standard wars that the world has seen and the questions that have to be answered are myriad and complex. Decisions need to be made from spectrum acquisition to deployed networks and eventually a business plan that returns good money on the investment in reasonable period. Savitar covers one such migration ...
Wireless Broadband in India: Evaluation of Technology Options
[ Source: Savitar Research Group ]
September 2010-
In the backdrop of the ongoing standards war, operators face difficult migration choices, namely Wimax "e" to Wimax "m" or TD-LTE. Technology decisions by operators are roiled by competing claims from the competing factions about their own technologies. As a result, operators do not have clear information to make the right decisions. Savitar presents an in-depth study on the technological feasibility of the co-existence of the competing technologies and a migration from one standard to ...
Next-generation Electro-Optics Technology with Coherent Detection
[ Source: Alcatel-Lucent ]
June 2010-
The Alcatel-Lucent 40G and 100G next-generation coherent
solution helps operators to easily deploy high-capacity networks and leverage their assets while lowering the cost per transported bit.
A "Hands-Free" Approach to Optical Networking
[ Source: Alcatel-Lucent ]
March 2010-
The Alcatel-Lucent innovation of Zero-Touch Photonics simplifies the way optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks are managed, adding the flexibility, control and automation typical of a digital network in the optical domain without compromising on capacity and cost-efficiency. By
implementing Zero-Touch Photonics operators can expect time, cost and resource savings, allowing them to focus their efforts — and investments — on growing their business.