Oracle’s Acme Packet Buy Takes on Cisco in IP
Oracle Corp. this week agreed to acquire session border controller specialist Acme Packet for approximately $2.1 billion in a deal that will pit it...
Radvision Debuts eVident Video Conferencing Management Suite
It’s an era of multiple types of endpoints and networks when it comes to enterprise video conferencing—requiring refreshed approaches to network and endpoint management....
ShoreTel Adds Multichannel Support to Contact Center
Unified communications specialist ShoreTel has upgraded its contact center solution to support multichannel touch-points: call center agents can now more effectively handle e-mails, chats...
To BYOD or To Not BYOD: There Are Other Options
As we all know, today’s workforce is increasingly mobile—and place-shifted. Workers sign on from home, work on the weekends and use their mobile devices...
M2M Poised to Be a $26B Opportunity
The machine-to-machine (M2M) and embedded device market is about to experience explosive growth, growing from $1.4 billion in 2011 to $25.9 billion in 2016,...
X4 Solutions Joins Thinking Phone’s Cloud Channel
Master agency X4 Solutions has joined Thinking Phone Networks’ cloud channel partner program as a master partner, to offer enterprise customers ThinkingSuite cloud UC...
Mobile Devices, Virtualization Drive Data Recovery Challenges
VARs and managed services providers offering data recovery services should get ready for a rough-and-tumble year. According to research from Kroll Ontrack, the ubiquity...
AT&T, Polycom Take Video Conferencing to the Cloud
AT&T is partnering with Polycom to deliver cloud-based video conferencing across any device for businesses.
AT&T will bundle the service with AT&T Business Exchange for...
Juniper Networks, Ingram Micro Target Partners with Switching, Security & Wireless
Juniper Networks is better targeting its integrated portfolio of Simply Connected switching, security and wireless products to channel partners with an increased focus within...
Android Malware Threatens Already-Weak SMB Cyber Security
A full 99 percent of mobile malware targets Android devices, according to research from Kaspersky Lab. As the bring-your-own device (BYOD) phenomenon proliferates and...
