Unified Communications

Forty-four states, DC and four territories have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This means that school districts across the country are planning for 100% online assessments during the 2014-2015 school year. One of the most important conditions needed for being able to administer online assessments is network infrastructure readiness.
Attend this 30-minute webinar and join Gavin Lee, Senior K-12 Business Development Manager at Juniper Networks, to discuss the critical network must-haves that all school districts should consider when looking to deploy a robust and supportable network. You will also receive practical guidance on how to get the most out of your network infrastructure and how to best prepare for the CCCSS assessments:
• Consortia network infrastructure
• Wired and wireless network capabilities
• Robust network security
• Network support readiness
• Juniper Networks network infrastructure readiness resources

Join us for a 30-minute live session every Friday, where we’ll tour the RingCentral interface, discuss the latest innovations and features available on the RingCentral platform, and share best practices on leveraging cloud communications for your business. This session features a live demo of RingCentral Office and an open Q&A session led by a Sales Engineer. This week tune in and learn how your employees can hold multi-point HD video meetings around the world, anytime and anywhere with RingCentral Meetings.

As part of a new video series called "Highlights," Channel Partners senior editor Kelly Teal introduces you to the general manager and channel manager of Wolfe, who lay out their company's products, describe their channel program, and explain why working with them could benefit your business.

Join us for our Intro to Box series, a monthly discussion of the latest in the world of enterprise IT, content collaboration, cloud technology, and Box. We'll cover an overview of Box, how businesses like yours are changing the way they work with Box and other cloud technologies, and walk through a demo of the latest and greatest in the product. The sessions will be led by Box product experts, and you might even get a guest appearance from one of our fearless leaders.

Today’s distributed business is forcing enterprises to build new data centers, adopt clouds, and move existing servers and clusters of servers to geographically distributed locations in order to provide nonstop, reliable, and secure access to critical business applications for users anywhere, anytime. As a result, connecting and sharing these resources securely across this landscape of multi-site data centers and clouds is not a choice — it’s a requirement. But interconnecting data centers is hard, and requires close coordination across different IT teams. Virtual networking and software defined networking (SDN) only exacerbate the problem.
Join us and learn more about how Juniper Network’s holistic approach to interconnecting data centers and clouds simplifies and accelerates the deployment and delivery of applications within and across multiple data center locations. Register now to attend!

Channel Partners recognized 50 solutions providers at the Spring 2014 Channel Partners Conference & Expo, during a ceremony sponsored by AT&T. Our video has the highlights.

Enterprises are overwhelmed with potential solutions to the corporate file sync and share dilemma. In this live webinar George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Arthur Chang from PanTerra Networks will discuss the three requirements that IT professionals should look for when selecting a enterprise class file sync and share solution.

Communications giants AT&T and Verizon led the way at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo with their announcements about money they're pumping into the channel. We break it down in the Channel Partners News Desk.

RingCentral - 5 Handy Tips for Moving to a Cloud Communications Solution

This edition of the Channel Partners News Desk examines a precedent-setting ruling involving a master agency and a service provider; partner contract changes at Level 3; and how CenturyLink's channel was able to achieve "incredible growth" in 2013.

XtremIO All Flash Arrays are quickly becoming an industry performance solution. EMC delivers XtremIO which will:
- Measured end-to-end at the host
- 100% random
- All flash pages non-zero
- Array filled to 80% – forcing overwrites
- Any size LUNs, any LBA range
- Mixed read/write I/O
- Increasing thread counts
- Extended time periods

Join experts from Juniper Networks and Rand Corporation for a fascinating overview of new research about the economics of the cyber crime market. In this research, key economic indicators show cybercrime is rapidly maturing, leading to a more diverse and challenging threat landscape for businesses, governments and people operating in the digital world. In fact, the ability to attack is outpacing the ability for many to defend themselves.

RAND researchers will discuss:
• Current and historical trends in cyber crime methods and tools
• How the black and grey market for vulnerabilities shapes the criminal landscape
• Key indicators of cyber crime market maturation

Juniper experts will outline:
• How organizations can use these findings to help inform a better and more active defense strategy
• Breaking the cyber crime economic model with advanced intrusion deception technologies

Cloud computing is slowly taking over every aspect of our lives with data, software and even infrastructures moving into the cloud. But will it affect the way we communicate internally and externally with clients? If so, what are the implications?

Join a panel of industry experts as they discuss the direction unified communications are headed, the role of cloud in the upcoming years and an analysis of the benefits and risks of cloud-based communications for small, medium and large businesses.

Still using a file server to share documents? What about that FTP? Emailing large attachments which get stuck in your inbox? The move to cloud computing allows businesses to access information , applications and content from anywhere, anytime on any device. As individuals have demanded the need to have the same ease of use in their enterprise grade applications as in consumer applications, the move to cloud has accelerated product adoption, lowered costs and increased productivity. Learn about various companies who moved to the cloud with Box, best practices and how to easily share without on-premise technology.

Corporations around the globe are adopting cloud solutions as a secure way to store and share information. At the same time, their legal and IT departments are challenged to develop a comprehensive e-discovery strategy for ongoing litigation, arbitration, and internal regulatory investigations.

In this one-hour webinar, Guidance Software and Box® team up to present the integration that enables streamlined, defensible discovery of ESI stored on Box with EnCase® eDiscovery. The webinar will cover:

-Goals and requirements for secure cloud storage
-Complexities associated with e-discovery collection from the cloud
-How to deploy an EnCase eDiscovery/Box integrated solution
-A case study on an organizations currently using this integrated solution

Businesses today are navigating a complex field of communication services and solutions in search of a comprehensive system that will keep up with the needs of an ever-evolving organization.

In this live discussion, Forrester’s VP, Principal Analyst, Art Schoeller and Mike Zavos, IT Director of TruGreen Landcare will share leading trends and first-hand experiences in adopting and deploying a cloud-based phone solution.

Join this eSeminar to learn:

-Top drivers and trends in the integrated communications market
-Best of breed capabilities that scale with your business and decrease common IT complexities
-Success steps for transitioning your on-premise PBX solution to a cloud-based phone solution

Today’s small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are all about efficiency; shaving costs while improving productivity. The cloud has historically been a key stepping stone to reach those goals via technology often reserved for enterprises. With the advent of unified communications as a service (UCaaS), SMB-accessible benefits are spreading even further – to link disparate workers for anytime, anywhere communication and collaboration. Businesses are sitting up and taking notice. But many IT professionals are wondering whether the concept of UCaaS might be too good to be true.

• How does UC in the cloud differ from its premise-based counterparts?
• What are the UCaaS benefits, drivers, and trends?
• What are the current adoption trends and where is UCaaS headed?
• How to determine if UCaaS is right for you?
• What questions do you need to ask and what to look for in a solution?

This expert session will address those questions and more to provide you with a comprehensive view of what UCaaS is, what it means for the future of IT, and how your peers are harnessing it for business benefits.

An Introduction to Clustering

Your business never stops. Neither should your network. Learn how an always-on, always-available enterprise provides users with complete access to business-critical applications such as unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) anytime, anywhere, from any device.

In fact, UC&C is a key driver of business transformation. As your organization grows, evolves and competes, seamless global communications are a must. In this session, industry experts will reveal what is driving network change and share what’s needed to enable a quality UC&C experience. Learn how Juniper Networks ON Enterprise solutions can keep your business connected and reduce operational complexity while achieving the best ROI for your UC&C investments.

VIRGO CEO John Siefert sits down with T.C. Doyle, Channel Partners' new executive editor, information technology and cloud, to talk about tech and business-related challenges that partners face in this rapidly changing industry.

Cutting through industry hype, this session will evaluate the real-world potential of SDN, identifying key opportunities and areas for development, allowing you to forecast the impact of SDN on your business