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Flexible Work Schedules Require a “Flexible” Office
Authors: Eric Schoch
Today’s “office” is vastly different from what it was even 10 years ago.
Workers are no longer bound by their stationary desktops and LAN lines, but “offices” are literally set up anywhere with laptops, “smart” devices (tablets and smart phones) and Internet connections. Just as offices are easily set up anywhere, at any time, so...
How are Cisco and Verizon Working Together to Enable Collaboration in the Cloud
Authors: Doron Aronson
Cisco & Verizon Cloud Collaboration Press Event[1]Earlier this week Eric Schoch, Senior Director for Cisco’s Hosted Collaboration Solution[2] business and Roberta Mackintosh, Verizon’s Director of Unified Communications and Collaboration hosted a ‘Collaboration to the Cloud’ discussion over TelePresence and WebEx with jour...
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Service Update is Now Available!
Authors: Julia White
I’m excited to announce a new release update of our online email protection service Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), which makes it easier for customers to manage hybrid email environments. Many of you already know that Forefront is Microsoft’s line of protection, access and identity management...
Lync PIC Trial Discontinued, Free PIC remains
Authors: Lync Team
The Lync marketing team continues to see the value of Public IM Connectivity (PIC) capabilities as a fundamental part of the Lync federation experience. With PIC, Lync users can connect to customers & partners and friends & family who are on public IM networks such as Windows Live, AOL, and Yahoo!. This is a great feature...
Email: Not Just a Commodity
Authors: Julia White
In November 2009 Cisco Mail was introduced to the world, but yesterday Cisco announced that they were abandoning this hosted mail service. It should come as no surprise that we have been watching the coverage with some interest and have some thoughts of our own to share.
The Wall Street Journal, in Cisco Pulls Plug...
The Lync Partner Ecosystem is Ready
Authors: Dean Howarth
LA Fitness Saves $500,000 Annually and Improves Customer Service with Communications Solution
Authors: Dean Howarth
This week I'd like to talk about LA Fitness and its Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (now called Lync Server 2010 with the latest release) solution. As LA Fitness has continued to open sports clubs all over the US and Canada, it ended up with many different communications solutions that didn't always work well...
Office 365: Lync meets the Cloud
Authors: Dean Howarth
Today, we announced Office 365, our next generation cloud productivity service. Office 365 brings Exchange, SharePoint and Lync Online together with Office desktop software as a cloud service. The technology will provide the latest, most complete, up-to-date service you can buy. It's everything you...
Exchange ActiveSync: The Industry Standard for Mobile Messaging
Authors: Julia White
The other day I was riding a shuttle bus between buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond and I took a few minutes to check my Outlook Mobile Inbox on my smartphone. There wasn’t anything urgent I had to respond to immediately, but I did notice that one of my meetings later in the day had a location