Telecomm

IT managers and business professionals are increasingly drawn to the cost effectiveness of online services to back up and recover corporate data distributed throughout their business on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

This white paper helps IT professionals distinguish between these categories of service providers.

With the rise in popularity of hosted VoIP options, you can be up and running (and saving money) in just a few hours, without having to install any costly equipment.

PBXs connect internal telephones of businesses, while also connecting the business to the Public Switched Telephone Network, or PSTN. They handle the processing of all calls within the PBX's system, and they have all the telecommunications features that companies need to conduct day-to-day business built into the system itself, so that you won't need to purchase them from the telephone company.

VoIP technology is not yet perfect, but there are many misperceptions about it too. Most of these are originate from the introduction of VoIP when problems with it were frequently reported. But the technology is improving all the time and some of these early problems have already been or are rapidly being fixed.

Read reviews on the leading five phone system brands in each category and understand why they lead their niche. See the differences between premise and hosted solutions, and help decide the best phone system for your company.

While phone system buyers read the buyers guides, research the different brands, and create elaborate RFPs, there is no substitute for learning from other phone system buyers' mistakes. Here is a list of 10 regrettable mistakes businesses have made when buying a phone systems.

You should have an answer every question you have and provide business terms that you feel comfortable with. Here are 8 questions to ask phone system vendors before you agree to purchase.

Mergers and acquisitions are a fact of life in today's highly competitive global business environment. Unfortunately, up to one third of mergers fail within five years, and as many as 80 percent never live up to their full potential. A great deal of evidence indicates that the ultimate success of mergers and the amount of time it takes to get them on track is determined by how well the cultural aspects of the transition are managed.

Read this whitepaper now to learn all about 4G. New technologies, benefits and features of 4G will all be discussed in this white paper. Read now if you are considering future 4G deployment and find out how iPass can help!

Bell Canada began an initiative to provide desktop solutions at reduced costs. With 8,000 call center agents, Bell Canada faced hardware attrition and rising costs. Streamlining systems, facilitating outsourcing and increasing capabilities to telecommute would reduce costs while improving service. This would require creating customized workstations for users. Bell Canada approached VMware Partner CGI Group Inc., which provides end-to-end IT and business process services, for a solution.

To accommodate increasingly dense technology environments, increasingly critical business applications, and increasingly stringent service level demands, data centers are typically engineered to deliver the highest-affordable availability levels facility-wide. Within this monolithic design approach, the same levels of mechanical, electrical, and IT infrastructure are installed to support systems and applications regardless of their criticality or business risk if unplanned downtime occurs. Typically, high redundancy designs are deployed in order to provide for all eventualities. The result, in many instances, is to unnecessarily drive up both upfront construction or retro-fitting costs and ongoing operating expenses.

In today's tough economy, Polycom cut more than $7 million in operating expenses all while increasing collaboration, heightening productivity and streamlining business processes. See how we did it.

From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing.

Does teleworking really work? How can a teleworker be as productive as an employee in the office? This white paper covers the advances in technology that make teleworking successful- and provides solutions for challenges teleworkers may face.

Many companies are talking about the advantages of video conferencing. But what results can you expect? How much more productivity will you see? What does the boost to collaboration look like? Which business units benefit most?

As companies look for ways to survive during a tough economy, small and medium sized businesses are discovering the benefits of virtual collaboration through video conferencing.

Learn how T-Mobile's business sales team leverages an employee collaboration network to close deals faster.

Corning Cable Systems offers the broadest range of end-to-end fibre optic and copper product solutions for telecommunications networks. Corning wanted to improve their supply chain to reduce inventory levels (thereby adding to bottom line savings) and reduce overall administrative costs- all without expensive or time-consuming investments.

Deploying a VMware environment on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Servers with HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology and HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions, Gradwell maximizes uptime and minimizes costs to bring their customers an advantage in Internet telephony.

How the Vertica Analytic Database is powering the new wave of commercial software, SaaS and appliance-based applications and creating new value and competitive differentiation for solution developers and their customers.

Read how Comcast, the largest cable communications company in the U.S., is using Vertica Analytic DBMS able to quickly collect and analyze data being generated by millions of network devices to ensure quality of service and accuracy of capacity planning to ensure a consistently good customer experience.

Today's organizations must embrace innovation, achieve a high level of responsiveness and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results.

Telecommunications services are becoming more and more complex. They now run over virtual network paths, less constrained by individual pieces of hardware. Get this white paper and see how service quality management solutions from IBM can improve the customer experience.Learn how telecomm providers can deliver optimal service quality

Digital Media convergence, Web 2.0 and social networking's growing influence are forcing Telecommunications companies to transform their service offerings. Watch this webcast to learn about IBM's asset-based telecommunications solutions that solve our clients most important challenges.