<p>Alcatel-Lucent has announced a new suite of solutions to help enterprises migrate to the cloud and apply more cost effective business models as they address the challenge of delivering communications services for a highly mobile, application-driven workforce.</p><p>Ovum enterprise practice leader Evan Kirchheimer said businesses are increasingly considering accessing unified communications (UC) services from the Cloud.</p><p>"Our research tells us that ICT decision makers are more likely to consider both private and public cloud options than unmanaged, premises-based collaboration solutions as they make new UC investments," Kirchheimer said.</p><p>"While UC-as-a-Service (UCaaS)remains in its infancy, there are a growing number of providers offering cloud UC solutions. We feel confident that enterprises can adopt UCaaS and know that there are a number of viable and robust solutions in the market that offer an affordable means to access advanced UC and collaboration tools."</p><p><a href="http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/03/alcatel-puts-unified-communications-cloud">Keep reading...</a></p>