Cisco CITEIS Cloud Reduces Cost and Application Deployment Times

How does Cisco provision and provide IT to its own staff? That’s where the Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure (CITEIS) effort comes into play. Michael Myers, Director Technical Services for Cisco Global Infrastructure Services, told Enterprise Networking Planet that with CITEIS, Cisco has been able to dramatically reduce the provisioning time…

Posted on: February 6, 2013 8:00 am

IT Pros Turn to Unified Communications With Uncertainty

Three-quarters (75 percent) of IT and telecom decision makers are actively moving toward a Unified Communications infrastructure in the next 12 months, but nearly two-thirds (61 percent) of those aren’t sure of the value it will bring to their business. That’s one finding in a new study from MDS, the U.K.-based provider of…

Posted on: February 6, 2013 8:00 am

WebRTC: Unified Communications Comes to the Application

In the not too distant future unified communications will be a feature embedded in almost every new Web application, which from a developer perspective means that most end users are going to soon view most existing applications as nothing short of being antiquated.The W3C is currently working out the details…

Posted on: February 5, 2013 6:00 pm

Virtual meetings add up for stats bureau

The ABS found a way to recruit and keep workers away from Canberra. Faced with government budget cuts and a growing decentralised workforce, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has introduced desktop videoconferencing software for all employees. Officially rolled out across the organisation last week, the project is expected to save…

Posted on: February 5, 2013 6:00 pm

Video is the New Document New Aberdeen Research Available on the State of …

RAMP, the leader in next generation search and video experiences, announced today the availability of a new report from the Aberdeen Group that reveals important trends in the adoption and use of video in the enterprise. The report, titled "Enterprise Video Content Management: The State of Use and Capabilities", analyzes…

Posted on: February 5, 2013 8:00 am

The Future of Social Business

This story originally appeared here in the February of Business Review Australia magazine. Written by Rhonda Marable, Communications Director at Businessfriend How can we make money? That’s a very simple question and really the only question that matters in business. It’s called the "bottom line" for a reason. Beyond the…

Posted on: February 5, 2013 8:00 am

11 Ways to Migrate Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint and Office 365

A lot can go wrong with content migration, but not if you know the right approach and have the best tool in place. Read this paper to learn how to complete your Lotus Notes migration to SharePoint and Office 365 accurately, completely and trouble-free. Correct content migration is a mission-critical aspect…

Posted on: February 5, 2013 8:00 am

Social Business Benefits Are A Long-Term Investment

There’s no need to review why your company has to get up to speed on social business. Get on the train or get left at the platform. We’ve all heard the lecture. And it must have sunk in because according to the gurus at Gartner, enterprise social networks are fast-becoming…

Posted on: February 4, 2013 8:00 am

Innovation Takes a Back Seat to Maintenance in 2012 IT Budgets

Media releases are provided as is and have not been edited or checked for accuracy. Any queries should be directed to the company issuing the release. Tecala Group survey finds that one-third of companies in 2012 allocated 80 per cent of their budgets towards maintenance-related activities, leaving 20 per cent Sydney, 4 February, These…

Posted on: February 4, 2013 8:00 am

PROFI AG setzt auf Social und Mobile Business

Darmstadt/Hannover 31. Januar 2013. "Shareconomy" heisst das Leitthema der diesjaehrigen CeBIT, 5. bis 9. Maerz in Hannover, und bildet auch eines der zentralen Momente im Portfolio der PROFI Engineering Systems AG. Das Darmstaedter Systemhaus sieht fuer die neue Form der Zusammenarbeit sowohl innerhalb von Unternehmen als auch im Geschaefts- und Social Business Plattform…

Posted on: February 4, 2013 8:00 am