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There’s some industry talk of a backlash against the cloud. That’s inevitable, given the hype over its promise. In general though, ‘backlash’ presents things too strongly – some individuals understandably feel angry, but market-wide momentum is still behind the uptake of cloud services.
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Network-centric cloud services are emerging as the new computing paradigm for performance-hungry, cost-conscious business customers. Recent surveys show that businesses are looking at the full span of private, hybrid and public cloud services in their adoption plans. Yet, most IT security professionals express serious and legitimate concerns about the security of cloud services, as well as how cloud adoption can adhere to corporate governance, risk and compliance (GRC) policies. IT security professionals are also increasingly alarmed by advanced persistent threats (APTs) that are undermining the very structure of the public Internet.
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These are heady days for IT managers with a hankering for mobility. Over the past two years, the usual impediments to mobilizing the workforce have vanished beneath an avalanche of consumer pressure, technological innovation and corporate acceptance. This is particularly true when it comes to supporting a wide array of devices from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nokia, RIM and others. Gazing at the myriad devices and plethora of software for those devices currently roaming about the marketplace would lead one to believe that it’s a foregone conclusion that mobility has reached a point where users can bring their device du jour to the workplace. Well, yes, this is true – but that’s really where the trouble begins.
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Enterprises want Ethernet: easy, cheap, fast Ethernet access into which they can plug, without dealing with leased circuit transport details. Carrier Ethernet access is easy enough to get at addresses served by fiber. However, addresses served by copper are also coming online, with two Ethernet flavors:
Virtualization and real-time communications have traditionally made for strange bedfellows. Yet persistent R&D work among top UC solution and virtualization software developers led to deployment on virtualized servers in a data center as a standard option for PBX call control software. Mitel started the ball rolling, working closely with VMware to develop a version of the vSphere virtualization platform capable of supporting real-time communications software. Server virtualization is now a checklist item for both UC and contact center software, with Aastra, Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, Siemens Enterprise and to a certain extent, ShoreTel, all supporting it.
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