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* NEWS FROM VOICECON:
VoiceCon 2007 Headquarters
This year’s spring business telephony conference promises to be bigger than the year before with keynotes from Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft and Nortel, bigger exhibition, more sessions as well as a conference-within-a-conference on next-gen contact centers — and Network World has it covered. Check out all the latest news from VoiceCon.
VoiceCon: Microsoft exec talks up corporate VoIP strategy, 03/08/07
Microsoft introduced the public beta of its Office Communications Server 2007 at VoiceCon. Following the announcement, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group, discussed with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth how Microsoft’s Session Initiation Protocol-based VoIP, messaging and collaboration server fits in and competes in the corporate convergence market.
VoiceCon: Users’ VoIP plans, products and deployments vary widely, 03/08/07
IP telephony is working its way into all types of enterprises, with the products and deployment plans varying as widely as the companies using the technology.
VoiceCon: Avaya CEO talks about changes, competition, 03/08/07
Louis D’Ambrosio became top guy at Avaya last July, making him only the company’s second CEO since its inception in 2000, when Avaya was spun off from Lucent’s legacy business telephony arm — a group which created the first cell phone and packet PBX. At the VoiceCon show this week, D’Ambrosio spoke with Network World about changes at the company, its competitors, and the enterprise VoIP market.
VoiceCon: IBM, Cisco expand unified communications partnership, 03/07/07
IBM and Cisco Wednesday announced a unified communications partnership and promised to deliver integration among their products including real-time clients and back-end servers, as well as an open-client framework for developers.
VoiceCon: Microsoft to offer first public beta of Office VoIP products, 03/07/07
Microsoft Wednesday will unveil the first public beta of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator client, the heart of its unified communications strategy.
VoiceCon: Shell bets big on Microsoft for global VoIP plans, 03/07/07
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is planning a global VoIP rollout with tens of thousands of IP phones that will ultimately run off of a mostly Microsoft-based server platform.
* NEWS FROM IT ROADMAP:
IT Roadmap: Network management and security making for happy bedfellows, 03/08/07
With the walls between IT domains crumbling, companies increasingly are putting in place policies, processes and technologies that serve the twofold purpose of managing and securing networks.
IT Roadmap: Combo of single sign-on and virtualization pays big dividends at hospital, 03/12/07
It’s a technology that many companies still find elusive, but single sign-on (SSO) is working as promised at Southwest Washington Medical Center (SWMC), while delivering a return on investment in just eight months. As a bonus, the SSO project also prompted the company to delve into virtualization technology, which is saving the firm some 20% on server resources along with heating, electricity and support costs.
IT Roadmap: After years ignoring network security, Harvard Business School makes it a priority, 03/08/07
When John Arsneault arrived at Harvard Business School about five years ago, the school’s network was a hacker’s dream.
IT Roadmap: University vindicates its all-or-nothing VoIP decision, 03/08/07
When Brandeis University opted for a campuswide VoIP deployment nearly three years ago, it didn’t fool around.
IT Roadmap show hits hot buttons, 03/08/07
Network World’s IT Roadmap conference in Boston last week opened with an analyst roundtable discussion that provided a series of quips about the current thinking on everything from mobility to VoIP and e-discovery.
IT Roadmap: Voyence bridges gap between network and security device data, 03/06/07
Voyence this week is set to make available the latest version of its software that collects change and configuration data from network and security devices and lets customers spot security holes more quickly.
* NEWS FROM CEBIT:
CEBIT – Grisoft releases small business security software, 03/13/07
Grisoft rolled out two security products on Tuesday for small businesses that want simple management, the company said.
CEBIT : Alcatel-Lucent’s European head steps down, 03/12/07
Alcatel-Lucent has cancelled its news conference at the Cebit trade show in Germany this week following the resignation of its former head of northern European operations, who had been due to lead the event.
CEBIT: RTX adds PBX-like functions to Skype phone product, 03/12/07
With an eye on small businesses seeking to lower their telephone costs, Denmark’s RTX Telecom A/S has added features to its cordless Internet telephone system, including the capability to connect four handsets.
* 2007 TRADE SHOWS:
Orlando, March 19 – 21
Orlando, March 27 – 29
6th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference 2007
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
Washington, DC – April 10-13
Smart Cards for Government and Payment – Mexico 2007
Mexico City, Mexico – May 8 – 9
San Francisco, April 22 – 26
San Francisco, April 15 – 18
San Diego, April 16 – 19
Chicago, May 5 – 7
Las Vegas, May 20 -25
Chicago, June 18 – 21
Boston, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1
* INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOWS 2007
Germany, March 15 – 21
Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 5 – 9, 2009
Taipei, Taiwan, June 5 – 9
* FREE NETWORK WORLD SEMINARS 2007:
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Santa Clara: June 26, 2007
Dallas: September 2007
Washington: November 2007
Sept. 10-11, 2007
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