Robin Gareiss
Telepresence, VNOC Services Key to Keeping Connected
Sometimes it takes unfortunate events to truly value technology. The volcano in Iceland froze air travel in Europe in the past week, affecting people all over the world who wanted to get into or out of Europe.Several technologies...
Securing the Unknown
During our current round of interviews with enterprise IT folks, I have had the opportunity to discuss many aspects of the emerging virtualized enterprise. One of the most important changes is divorcing access from place: making the...
High-Definition Matters—and will Increase in Importance
When most little girls get birthday money, they want to run to the store and spend it on clothes, toys, dolls, or jewelry. Breaking from the norm as usual, my daughter decided to spend a large chunk of her 10th birthday money on...
SMBs Turn to Managed Services
It’s a challenging time for anyone responsible for providing IT services, regardless of company size. IT budgets have been slashed across the board. Business leaders are mandating that all groups tighten their budgets, requiring IT...
UC Support Options
Growing UC adoption creates a challenge for IT, as applications often exist in isolation, deployed and managed separately. Add end-users’ high expectations of application performance, regardless of where they work, when, or from...
Video Conferencing Interoperability a Goal
A slew of recent interoperability and cross-company video service announcements from Avaya, BT, Cisco, HP, LifeSize, Polycom, Reliance Globalcom, and Vidtel all serve to underscore the growing momentum behind expanding video...
Collaboration Improving Productivity
As the number of distributed locations continues to grow, often we’ll see the number of collaboration tools an organization deploys grow as well. More than half of Nemertes research participants are deploying applications, such as...
Framework for the Borderless Network
Cisco Systems has been touting the idea of “borderless” networking for several months now, and last week, the vendor put some substance behind the architecture.The product announcements aim to improve security and support for...
Cisco Borderless Announcement Highlights Security, Sustainability, Multimedia
The recent announcement by Cisco Systems of Cisco Borderless Access highlights enhancements to the company's switching portfolio that are aimed at improving security, sustainability, and support for multimedia applications. All three...
UC in Healthcare On the Rise
At last week’s HIMSS conference, both privately held Avaya and Cisco launched new healthcare-focused UC products to improve patient care, hospital operations, and expand the use of video conferencing for telemedicine. UC adoption in...
Video Integration Should be a Key Part of Your Strategy
The majority of companies are doing something with video conferencing, whether desktop, room-based, or fully immersive telepresence—or some combination of the three.So far, though, most companies are implementing these types of video...