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By Nick Lippis, Lippis Consulting Along with a turbulent macroeconomic cycle comes business rationalization and in networking the wide area offers a unique opportunity to deliver value, both in terms of operational efficiency and business initiative alignment...

This poster provides a high-level architectural view of Cisco’s new series of validated design guides created to help businesses deploy an integrated security strategy across the network...

Unique is the operator of Zurich Airport and offers a broad service portfolio to about 180 other companies, which also reside in the airport. Zurich Airport offers work for about 20,000 individuals and transports approximately 18 million passengers annually...

Nortel, announced on June 20th, that it will liquidate its assets and may get less then $2B, which is less then 1% of its pre-dotcom boom valuation...

By Avaya There has been a growing recognition about the critical importance of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. This is a decade marked by catastrophic natural disasters and man-made disruptions such as terrorist events...

By Cisco Systems The Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 is deployed in the most critical parts of enterprise and service provider networks. Having such a vital position in the network, the Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 must provide the highest levels of availability...

The market crash of 2008 has modified business behavior & processes permanently. When capex resumes it will not fund follow-on pre crash IT projects but IT projects that are top down driven by executive mandate to streamline operations...

The spring business cycle in our industry brought HP and Microsoft closer together, Avaya’s launch of Aura, Cisco’s go-to-market strategy for its unified computing system (UCS), Brocade’s 8000 FCoE switch launch, 3Com/H3C’s new 12500 data center core switch and re-emergence into the...

By Miercom Avaya Aura Branch Edition (formerly known as Avaya Distributed Office) delivers rich communication, collaboration and mobility capabilities to customer-facing branch offices...

By Cisco Systems Server virtualization, part of the Cisco ® Unified Computing System, leads to significant cost savings, helping organizations address space, power, cooling, and budget constraints...

Data center IT pros live in interesting times, as they have not seen design changes so sweeping since IBM introduced S360 architecture in the early 1960s...

By Avaya & EDS Contact center decision-makers are focused on helping their company increase operational efficiencies and customer satisfaction. New contact center technologies, labor and market uncertainties are leading organizations to transition to an IP-based, or virtualized, model...

By Cisco Systems As the global economy slowed in 2008, then came to a screeching halt in 2009, it sent a wave of change through the IT community...

By Cisco Systems This short three page At-A-Glance paper provides a quick description of Cisco Security Intelligence Operations...

By Cisco Systems Innovations such as virtualization, cloud computing, and web-based access for employees, partners, and customers are bringing about a dramatic evolution in nearly every organization’s infrastructure...

By Nick Lippis, Lippis Consulting Along with a turbulent macroeconomic cycle comes business rationalization and in networking the wide area offers a unique opportunity to deliver value, both in terms of operational efficiency and business initiative alignment...

In late March of 2009 Siemens Enterprise Communication announced a UC cloud service where it has placed its OpenScape Voice and UC applications on Amazon’s EC2 cloud infrastructure...

There are multiple business and technology trends that are now interacting and forcing IT planners to rethink their wide area network (WAN) design. The macroeconomic downturn has proven once and for all that business and its processes are global...

By Avaya There is no single strategy to ensure that enterprises will move forward with unified communications since each customer has a unique set of needs and existing infrastructure...

According to various industry sources, branch office users comprise 30 to 90 percent of enterprise employees globally, with remote locations and users consuming 70 to 90 percent of business resources...

Unified Communications (UC) as an integrated launch point to multiple communications applications will swiftly fade as UC is integrated into corporate social networking and collaboration applications. This is the impression I walked away with after the Orlando VoiceCon industry event...

By Cisco Systems Businesses have long recognized the benefits of wireless networking: flexible network connectivity, improved productivity, and lowered cabling costs...

By Zeus Kerravala, Yankee Group The communications industry has touted Voice Over IP (VoIP) and unified communications (UC) as technologies that can transform the way workers collaborate and raise the bar on workers’ productivity...

Avaya has launched a new architecture for Unified Communications (UC) with its new software product Avaya Aura™. This enterprise-wide SIP architecture connects users, UC devices, disparate legacy voice and IP systems plus UC applications, creating a holistic UC services delivery system...

It’s been over a week since Cisco launched its Unified Computing System (UCS) initiative...

By Wainhouse Research sponsored by Avaya This white paper describes a four-step framework for moving unified communications from an ad hoc, deployment scenario, which has resulted in many of the companies interviewed having a siloed implementation, to a managed process, tying the technology to an...

By Avaya A guide that takes you through the latest contact center technologies, and how they can help you develop brand differentiation, elevate customer loyalty, and keep costs low — even when everyone is tightening their budgets. A must-read in today’s economic climate...

By Cisco Systems The Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) is an integrated high-performance network infrastructure platform designed to replace multiple devices in today’s existing networking environments...

By SIS International Research & Siemens Enterprise Communications This white paper outlines the findings of a study sponsored by Siemens Enterprise Communications and prepared by SIS International Research...

By Alcatel-Lucent Competitive differentiation is critical in the current business climate, and transformation is essential to achieving it...

By Cisco Systems In today’s trading environment, traders need next-generation tools that enhance collaboration and enable true mobility over a robust technology architecture...

A series of short interviews and comments from Industry Executives and Analyst on Cloud Networking. Watch the Video ShareThis

Clearly the economic news over the past five months has been disturbing and at many times scary. So the question we ask is why invest in Unified Communications (UC) now and not wait until the recovery...

With Nick Lippis, Industry Analyst Jennifer Geisler examines the current economic recession, its implications for business, and the role of information technology. Visit the Link ShareThis

For this Lippis Report Research Note I talked with Cisco’s Mark Fulgham, VP Marketing Data Center Emerging Technologies at Cisco on Unified Computing, and Jim Ganthier, VP HP BladeSystem Marketing, Metrics and Solutions...

This paper provides an overview of the business value related to the joint Unified Communications solutions offered by Avaya and Microsoft. Readers will understand the elements and steps involved in making a Unified Communications deployment decision and cover success factors...

The future of IT is a networked model. Value creation and innovation is found in content that flows freely throughout networks. Cloud computing, Web 2.0, mobile applications, unified communications, video on-demand, social networking, etc are the result of the networked IT model...

IT suppliers are delivering products that consume less energy while offering new IT delivery approaches such as data center virtualization to reduce cooling and power demands...

By HP ProCurve This short paper describes HP ProCurve’s new network ecosystem. It explores the value of an open network that offers customer choice in their IT infrastructure...

By Avaya Unified Communications (UC) is now delivering consistently positive results through targeted implementations. Applications and benefits are documented in both User Productivity (UC-U) and Business Process (UC-B) categories...

This Facebook video is my take on Unified Computing and how its impacting the relationships between HP, IBM and Cisco. To watch the video, follow the link above. Visit the Link ShareThis

Are you looking for a comprehensive solution that addresses insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication or obstacles to IT consolidation...

Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage...

This is not 2001, but 2009. This recession’s impact on the IT industry is nothing like the Great IT Depression of 2001 when $5 trillion of IT market value was wiped out, IT firms worked off large product inventories pushing margins down and hundreds of thousands of IT jobs were lost...

Marie Hattar, Vice President of Network Systems and Security Solution Marketing at Cisco Systems, is my guest as we discuss the sustainable effect afforded by networks and communications...

Avaya just hired Kevin Kennedy as its new CEO. Zeus Kerravala of The Yankee Group and I comment on Avaya’s pick and review the recent Avaya analyst conference with an eye toward which Enterprise Communication companies will survive the downturn. Enjoy, Nick ShareThi

Zeus Kerravala of The Yankee Group and I make our annual IT predictions. This year we make ten predictions ranging from data center/cloud/virtualization, green IT, the fate of UC, the new IT organization design to which firms will be gone by the end of the year. Enjoy, Nick ShareThis

I believe in IT. Even with all the gloom in the economic news, IT will play a major role in the recovery. This economic mess is not a typical business cycle of supply and demand balance or imbalance...

By Arista Networks The standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE802.3ae) was ratified in 2002. While 10 GigE deployments have grown every year since then, the technology has primarily been used to interconnect switches and routers...

By Force10 Networks The term “IP storage” refers to storage networks that access data resources over IP/Ethernet rather than direct attached storage (DAS) devices...

While the global economy slows down, network security spending continues to be robust as business and IT leaders seek to protect corporate assets, thus avoiding a major distraction when market focus is needed most...

While the global economy slows down, network security spending continues to be robust as business and IT leaders seek to protect corporate assets and achieve compliance, thus avoiding a major distraction at a time when market focus is needed most...

By InsightExpress This presentation is a detailed market research of the perceptions and behaviors of remote workers. The data is based upon a study of employees and IT professionals around the world...

By InsightExpress This presentation is detailed market research identifying the risks and challenges of data leakage for businesses and employees around the world. The data is based upon a study of employees and IT professionals around the world...

Enterprise networks, especially branch office networks, have experienced a level of service integration over the past five years that has delivered lower acquisition and operational cost while increasing the number of services available to branch office employees...

We continue to focus on the impact the macro economic scenario will have on the enterprise networks and communications industry. I was shown the most frightening graph while I was at Morgan Stanley. On one page it compared the economic declines of 1973 and 1929 versus today...

By Foundry Networks Delivering an ideal enterprise network solution implies having a mission-critical network infrastructure, secure on-demand network access, non-stop operational management, unified business communications, and the highest return on investment...