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- Research firm: facilities move most common enterprise VoIP "trigger"
- In a research note emailed today, Nemertes Research says that a "move to a new facility" is the most common trigger for enterprise adaptation of VIP.Nemertes surveyed 120 IT directors, and found that the 10 most common VoIP "triggers are:Nemertes interviewed 120 IT executives for its recent benchmark, Building the...
- Tags: Enterprise IP/VoIP, Case Studies
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Unified Communications: What, Why and How? - What Value Can Unified Communications Bring to Your Enterprise?
- Unified communications has the potential to dramatically simplify and improve enterprise communications, reducing costs and improving revenue opportunities. By integrating various forms of communications, such as voice, video, instant messaging, conferencing, presence and voicemail, individuals and groups can more effectively control and manage their inbound and outbound communications sessions. Enterprises...
- Tags: Nemertes Research, Unified Communications, Collaboration
- White papers 2007-05-29
- Nemertes Research: The Business Case for Voice over IP
- VoIP clearly is a critical and common application at the vast majority of organizations. As companies start or continue their VoIP deployments, they must consider each vendor's price relative to the others', as well as total cost of ownership. They also should look beyond the actual dollars. If a price...
- Tags: Business Case, Nemertes Research, IP, Avaya Inc., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Roi/Tco, Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2007-04-07
- Securing Virtualized Infrastructure: From Static Security to Virtual Shields
- Data centers have undergone tremendous transformation in the past five years. Virtualization has changed the architecture for servers, storage and networks. IT organizations are using management and provisioning automation to reduce operational cost, and increase responsiveness to business demands. But security is becoming more and more challenging. While virtualization has...
- Tags: Nemertes Research, Virtualization, Security, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-21
- Presence to revolutionize the workplace
- Nemertes Research has its eyes pointed over the horizon saying that presence--the ability to see where people are, what they are doing, and how they want to be reached--is on track to revolution the way people work. Information gathered from presence-based technologies, such as instant messaging, telephony applications, and location-based...
- Tags: Nemertes Research
- Blog posts 2004-08-27
- Red Hat app server brings open-source economics to Web services
- Nemertes Research suggests that RedHat's open-source application server is an indication that open-source software is moving deeper into the data center and is changing the economics of enterprise software:This week’s announcement by Red Hat Inc. of the availability of Red Hat Application Server, its open-source application server, highlights the gathering momentum of...
- Tags: application server, open source
- Blog posts 2004-08-15
- AT&T goes strictly business
- Nemertes Research suggests that AT&T's emerging role strictly as a service provider, specializing in ensuring effective delivery of services to a defined customer group has likely long been part of the company's strategy. Citing the exit from Concert, the sale of wireless operations and closing of Cometa, exiting the consumer market is...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2004-07-23
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- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...
- Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- From the vault: Lisa demo
- From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc. After a tour of the Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface GUI was the future of computing. Apple traded...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Xerox PARC, Lisa, Productivity, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"
- A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...
- Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Live Webcast: The 2008 Email Security Benchmarking Report
- Email is a critical tool for business communications, but its use is threatened by the growing volume and sophistication of external attacks. Today's best-in-class organizations are realizing significant benefits compared to other organizations, particularly through the use of Software as a Service SaaS security applications. Join this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Webcast, E-mail Security, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security
- Webcasts 2008-10-07
- Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…
- Is Linux ready to replace Windows on the desktop? Linux advocates think that light, cheap netbooks show off the advantages of an open-source OS over Windows. Out in the real world, though, the market is arguing to the contrary. The director of sales for one especially hot-selling netbook says its...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- 46% of social networking users visited mobile social networks
- According to ABI Research, 46% of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15% adoption mobile adoption. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "46%...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?
- Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
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