The Business Benefits of Unified Communications

Looking to remote workstation experiences for employees who need high quality graphics performance, including full multi-monitor and video support?

Don’t miss this upcoming webinar to find out:

- How financial services organizations, schools, media and entertainment and computer aided design/engineering companies can benefit from remote graphics deployments

- How the AMD FirePro™ R5000 remote graphics, featuring the TERA2240, can deliver high quality graphics without compromise, anywhere on the corporate network

- How Florida Atlantic University is able to meet its energy saving goals and deliver a robust computing experience for its students

Check out this video from Xirrus as they explain why you need to focus on performance, interference and upgradability when choosing a Wi-Fi solution.

What is Wi-Fi optimization? It delivers increased productivity. It enables streamlined workflow. It results in faster ROI. In other words, it enables you to conduct your business without worrying about your wireless network getting in the way. With wireless networks typically designed with less than 5% the capacity of wired, users have come to expect less when they are connected wirelessly. Wireless optimization ends the era of under-performance — come find out what it’s all about:

- User optimization – simplify and secure the process of onboarding users
- Application optimization – control and prioritize your critical applications
- Device optimization – not every device is the same, so don’t treat them all equally
- Spectrum optimization – ensuring RF is tuned to deliver maximum performance
- Capacity optimization – wireless design to handle future requirements

Social business represents a new transformational opportunity for organizations. After initial forays into external social media, many companies are now discovering the value of applying social approaches, internally as well as externally. Social business can create valued customer experiences, increase workforce productivity and effectiveness and accelerate innovation. But many companies still wrestle with the organisational and cultural challenges posed by these new ways of work.

Join this webinar to hear the proven results from easily integrating social into your everyday tools to improve your business.

About the speaker:
Chris Moore is a Social Business Specialist for IBM Collaboration Solutions. He has 7 years experience and knowledge of Collaboration and Exceptional Web Experience technologies; including IBM Notes, Domino, Sametime, Connections, Docs and Web Experience Suites.

The vast majority of organisations are already or will adopt Cloud Services alongside their existing deployment models, notably on-premise for the foreseeable future. In this keynote, we will explore the principle of implementing, managing and governing why and when cloud is a preferable deployment option and how to manage it alongside your wider IT estate. Drawing on research carried out by the Cloud Industry Forum this webinar will look to provide evidence of market trends in cloud adoption and its implications to IT governance of cloud infrastructures.

Is there an opportunity for IT departments to embrace new business models that are more customer centric?

One of six crowd-sourced questions we posed to the experts at the Unified Communications / Social Business Expo in London.

Leading UK bloggers came together with IBM Social Business leaders and Business Partners to examine the use of social networks and collaborative social software within the organisation to fuel innovation.
How do you encourage idea sharing?
Questions answered:

Is there value in a top down approach?
Innovation - is it about quantity or quality?
How do traditional hierarchies need to evolve so that we may surface ideas?

Leading UK bloggers share their views on social business, what it means to them, what it means to the industry and what it means to your customers.

The video features:
- Chris Turner, Springwise
- David Terrar, Biz Two Zero
- Matt Alder, Recruiting Futurology
- David Cushman, Fast Future
- Johnnie Moore, The Johnnie Moore Weblog

In this session, AWS discusses common best practices for adopting cloud computing in your business. Tap into the shared learning of hundreds of thousands of customers, as we talk about how to create the right technical and business policies for adopting the cloud, migration hints and tips, and how to develop employees skills around the cloud computing ecosystem.

Understand how to create an elastic data center and connect existing networks and application assets to resources in the cloud. AWS will discuss technologies such as VPC and Direct Connect and common use cases from Enterprise customers.

In this presentation AWS will talk about some of the transformations that Cloud computing brings to the delivery of IT infrastructure and how enterprises can leverage these changes to create cost efficient, agile and customer focused systems.

This webinar explains the Big Data revolution—what it is, what opportunities it creates, and what challenges exist. It explains why having a conversation with your data is a fundamentally different way to extract business insight and how Big Data analytics—and HP’s Information Management solutions —help you do just that.

Enterprises have the opportunity to harvest and strategically utilize Big Data to improve market knowledge, enhance competitiveness, and transform their operations and their business model. It’s a disruptive change for business, and enterprises that learn to use Big Data for business advantage will thrive in the era ahead, while those that do not, will find themselves outpaced by more nimble competitors and risk extinction.

BYOD is no longer a consideration, it’s a reality. Every day over 2 million new wireless devices are being activated and these devices will show up on you network. And while most wireless vendors are talking about the potential security risks, which are considerable, almost no one is discussing the impact the sheer numbers of devices will have on your networks performance.

A recent Gartner study did and stated that ‘By 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning’. Many administrators still designing for coverage, when capacity limits are the true Achilles heel of wireless deployments. This session will discuss the varied client types and their capabilities, best practices to address growing device densities and how both impact overall network performance. IT administrator looking at a BYOD deployment or even just a wireless upgrade will gain valuable insight from this presentation.

Perry Correll is a Senior Technologist as well as the Director of Product Marketing at Xirrus. His extensive networking background extends from original Ethernet Thicknet technology, through the switching revolution and now is involved in pushing advancements in Wi-Fi technology to displace wired solutions. Previous roles included technologist and management roles at Cabletron, Xylan and Alcatel.

As networks, servers and applications all increase in complexity, how do you make it simpler and less costly to manage changes and improve performance? We’ll cover practical steps needed to develop the knowledge sets needed to support major transformation projects, as well as improving end to end IT management processes. Ideal for anyone who has found that mapping their IT infrastructure dependencies needs more than one white board!

This webinar takes a look at the drivers for deploying IPv6 and how if will affect your network. We then go on to examine the security considerations of the fact that IPv6 support is now ubiquitous on enterprise network equipment. IPv6 has been a long time coming but it's now something that's supported on the majority of enterprise equipment - your data centre is filled with IPv6-ready devices. Are they already talking IPv6 without your knowledge?

Networks have become more complex as organisations have grown the use of technology within their organisation. However, vendors are attempting to address the problems by pushing “fabric networks”; a flatter system of data centre networking that promises much. What is fabric networking and what can an organisation do to move towards such a network architecture.

In 2013, the big buzzwords that have been casually thrown around will evolve into serious business opportunities for both vendors and end-users. Many significant decisions will be made by CIO's that will affect how the IT department's role within an enterprise.

In this outlook to 2013, Neuralytix will provide an outlook to how the IT industry will evolve. Topics include:
- Big Data
- Cloud
- Mobility
- Security
- Social Networking

Neuralytix will also look at some of the best practices that CIOs need to implement to stay relevant in 2013.

The concept underlying unified communications is startlingly simple – communications integrated to optimize business processes. New opportunities to embed communications within business processes will transform how work gets done. But selecting among choices to do this is where things can get complicated. This session will explore the concepts underlying this transformation, discuss future implications, and talk about planning a roadmap to get there. Some of the topics will be:

- Why is there periodic confusion over what UC is all about?
- What are the implications of UC for businesses in the future?
- How do you discover communications use cases?
- How do use case requirements drive implementation decisions?
- What are the three fundamental starting points for UC deployment?

UC projects don't have to be difficult. With the right method of implementation and management, UC can provide a ROI and business value.

Attend this webinar as Thomas Beck from TeoTech discusses this concept as well as:
- How where you start makes a difference
- The building block to a successful UC system
- The difference between hosted vs. premise based UC
- Guidelines for a successful roll out and adoption
- Building the ROI justification