<p>Avaya today unveiled its new communications architecture for virtualized unified communications (UC) applications, Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment (Avaya Aura VE), to help businesses accelerate mobile collaboration applications across their organization.</p><p>With Avaya Aura VE, businesses gain new options for deploying Avaya's UC and customer service solutions in virtual architectures.</p><p>Key Avaya Aura VE features include the following:Redundancy and resiliency: All of the critical systems availability features of Avaya Aura's server-based platform-including software duplication, redundant session controls for SIP access and a survivable core-are maintained in Avaya Aura VE, driving business continuity and reducing risk in virtualized environments. In addition, the solution integrates with VMware vCenter Server tools for diagnostics, provisioning, and traffic management.A simplified, open path: With Avaya Aura VE, businesses continue to benefit from the same open-standards approach driven by Avaya Aura. In addition, virtualization allows businesses to expand UC functions and users without adding new equipment, and do so quickly by cutting deployment times from hours to minutes. Companies with VMware cloud infrastructure in their data centers can now integrate Avaya Aura applications onto their existing server environments. Agile customer service operations: Avaya Aura extends virtualization to its call center application, Call Center Elite. With less equipment required, companies can add contact center agents based on seasonal, sales, and purchasing trends.</p><p>With today's announcement, businesses also have several flexible options for enhanced mobility and collaboration. Businesses can choose full virtualization with Avaya Aura VE or continue with the dedicated hardware approach already offered by Avaya Aura. They can also combine virtualized and dedicated servers for application deployment. As another option, Avaya Collaboration Pods for Avaya Aura VE will be offered as pre-packaged, all-in-one UC solutions for virtualized storage, computing and networking.</p><p><a href="http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Avaya-Releases-New-Aura-Collaboration-and-Unified-Communications-Tool-86552.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/avaya-teaming-with-vmware-on-virtualized-collaboration-7000008363/">Avaya teaming with VMWare on virtualized collaboration</a> (ZDNet)</p><p><a href="http://www.datacenterjournal.com/the-daily-buzz/new-communications-architecture-from-avaya/">New Communications Architecture from Avaya</a> (The Data Center Journal (blog))</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/120512-avaya-uc-aura-264823.html">Avaya virtualizes UC Aura platform</a> (Network World)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d3vsk82nn2exKgMuJ63U1xwHulN1M&ned=us">27 additional articles.</a></p>