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  • Microsoft Lync Reality Check Microsoft Lync Reality Check
    Misrosoft Lync is like the “600 pound gorilla in the room”, which is why the discussUC staff found this report so interesting. Says the author, Irwin Lazar, of this free report on the Nemertes web site…..Driven by the ability to…
  • Unscripted, Uncensored for Resellers Unscripted, Uncensored for Resellers
    It isn't often we get to see a group of industry people "telling it like it is" at a conference. The disconnect between vendors and the channel is a hot topic in this discussion - sprinkled with a bit of…
  • You Gotta Love It - The ShoreTel Dock! You Gotta Love It - The ShoreTel Dock!
    Under the heading “Why didn’t any of the handset manufacturers think of this?” comes an “aha” from ShoreTel.       From our perspective, the significance of the ShoreTel docking station is the impact it could have on unified communications. Yes, we did…
  • Why Apple Still Has the Magic Why Apple Still Has the Magic
    I am fascinated by the bipolar swings in sentiment toward Apple Inc. Last September, it was a magical company that could do no wrong. But by mid-April, Apple's share price had plunged more than 40 percent, from a peak of…
  • Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail
    Whether it’s a UC project, a collaboration project or whatever, to ensure project success there are some steps that need to be taken by the integrator and the customer IT department. If the steps aren’t taken, prepare for the worst…
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  • Mobile Device choice More Important Than Salary Mobile Device choice More Important Than Salary
    At Interop New York last month, Cisco’s Sujai Hajela, VP/GM of Wireless Networking Business Unit, said “people are falling in love with their mobile devices,” during his keynote. He was right. People are so in love with their mobile devices that they’ll choose mobile device flexibility over salary. Consider this. According to the second chapter of ...
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  • Is Polycom penetrating the UC market?
    Polycom made the largest announcement in its 22-year history: an end-to-end upgrade of its entire portfolio.
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  • We Know What Digital Communication Has Given Us. What Has it Taken Away?
    It’s almost 2013, and the Web is inevitably loaded with articles about the way technology will improve our lives in the coming year or years. Up-and-coming technologies and events are, of course, important to learn about and look forward to. But the end of the year is also a good time to look back and examine what we’ve lost with…
  • Cloud Computing And Organizational Inertia
      Having spent this last week at the Cloud Connect event in Silicon Valley, I have had a number of interesting discussions with people involved with various aspects of cloud computing. While industry analysts such as Gartner and IDC are projecting that 80% of all servers running on native hardware are expected to be virtualized by 2020, many service provider…