Unify chosen to transform communications and collaboration at Nissan
Unify, and partner Midland Telecom, have announced they they will supply enhanced communications and collaboration services for Nissan’s UK contact centre. The deal will see Unify replace Nissan’s...
View ArticleBox announces deep integration with Microsoft Office Online
Secure collaboration and file sharing specialist Box has announced a deep integration with Microsoft Office Online that will transform collaboration for joint customers. The update extends the reach of...
View ArticleIBM, Google, Microsoft, Cisco join forces for new ‘container’ standard
IBM, Google, Intel, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, EMC, Amazon, VMWare, and Linux distie Red Hat are among the founding members of a coalition behind the Open Container Project (OCP), a proposed industry-wide...
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IBM and Box Announce Global Partnership to Transform Cloud Collaboration
IBM and cloud collaboration specialist Box have announced a global partnership that will combine technologies and resources from both companies to transform they way users work in the cloud and offer...
View ArticleCisco announces new Internet of Things portfolio
Networking giant Cisco has launched a new Internet of Things system. But what is it for, and what are the implications for unified communications? Chris Middleton investigates. Cisco has announced the...
View ArticleMicrosoft offers sneak preview of new Skype for Business enterprise features
Microsoft has released preview versions of some of the new enterprise-grade features that Office 365 subscribers can expect from the upcoming release of its UC solution, Skype for Business. Of interest...
View ArticleVideo set to drive mobile data traffic growth to 2020, says Ericsson Mobility...
Mobile video is forecast to grow by around 55 per cent annually through to 2020, when it will account for around 60 per cent of all mobile data traffic, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report...
View ArticleMicrosoft to lay off 7,800 in new wave of cuts
Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, confirmed today that it plans to make 7,800 new job cuts, in addition to the 18,000 that it announced in 2014. The cuts had been rumoured on Wall Street...
View ArticleEverything Voice chooses Circuit to boost collaboration
Specialist SMB unified communications provider Everything Voice has deployed Unify’s Circuit collaboration tool within the organisation. Circuit – which debuted last autumn – allows Everything Voice to...
View ArticleEnterprises looking to increase investment in UC&C solutions over the next...
According to a new report from market analysts IDG Enterprise 55 per cent of organisations are currently using or running unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions. However, it...
View ArticleCisco’s Chambers looks back as he hands control to Robbins
At the end of this week, Cisco chief John Chambers steps down after two decades. Chris Middleton looks back, and to the future. John Chambers, outgoing CEO of networking equipment giant Cisco, began...
View ArticleDaisy Group completes Phoenix Group acquisition. Plans to become UK’s first...
Unified communications (UC) company Daisy Group has set it sights on becoming the first £1 billion revenue UC and infrastructure managed services business in the UK following the completion of its...
View ArticleIDC profiles 12 top UC&C players
Analyst group IDC has published 2015 research profiling 12 vendors in the global unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. The IDC MarketScape report ranked Cisco, Microsoft, and...
View ArticleThree in five UK businesses believe video conferencing boosts productivity,...
Three in five (59 per cent) of UK businesses believe that video conferencing has led to increased employee productivity, according to research performed by cloud-based video collaboration services...
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Cloud adoption is driving flexible working practices among UK SMEs, says new...
The adoption of cloud-based applications is driving UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to embrace flexible working practices, according to a new survey from BT Business and British Chambers...
View ArticleUC: Data security in a mobile world
Unified Communications (UC), collaboration, and mobile technology are increasingly one and the same thing. Suppliers certainly agree: when even large-enterprise technology behemoths, such as IBM,...
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OPINION: HOW CLOUD AND MOBILE ARE PERFECT PARTNERS FOR UC
By Troy Trenchard, Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communications Applications, Avaya Troy Trenchard, Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communications Applications, Avaya Unified...
View ArticleCisco: Good results and leading Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, but challenges...
IT industry bellwether Cisco has issued better than expected quarterly results. The networking equipment giant has reported Q4 profits of $2.3 billion (up 3.2 per cent), on revenues of $12.8 billion...
View ArticleCollaboration core to enterprise cloud success, says Harvard
The key benefit of the use of enterprise cloud technologies is increased collaboration and agility, says a new report from Harvard Business Review Analytics Services. “As cloud services have matured...
View ArticleVonage snaps up iCore to create major UCaaS presence
Cloud communications provider Vonage has announced that it is to acquire iCore Networks, a provider of enterprise Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), for $92 million. Vonage believes that the...
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