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Entries from April 2009

VMware vSphere

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

If you follow virtualization to any degree, you’ve no doubt heard about the new version of VMware called vSphere. Since it’s announcement, we’ve been digging into what the new features are and it’s going to be big! According to VMware, “VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the [...]

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Tags: Managed Hosting · Managed IT Services · Network Solutions · Uncategorized

System Monitor

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

The most sensitive application on your IP network is the Voice over IP (VoIP) system.  If the LAN is suffering from latency, storms, or other induced errors the VoIP system will degrade its voice quality.  Shoreware System Monitor continuously monitors all links, applications and services in your VoIPnetwork, helping to ensure the maximum performance and [...]

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Death of the firewall

April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

If you’re familiar with the stateful packet inspection firewall, you’re familiar with the work of a guy by the name of Nir Zuk. He’s one of the inventors of the technology and he’s now gone on to take it to the next level. I highly recommend taking a look at a couple of the videos [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions

Mobility

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

 
More and more employees are utilizing their cell phones to increase their telephone coverage area, to seemingly be at the office while being in or out of the office, seamlessly.  A continuing challenge while doing this is maintaining their company image and system features, and the added expense of their cellular calls.  Fixed Mobile Convergence [...]

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Layer 3 Switches

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

If you’re in the marked for a Layer 3 Managed Gigabit switch, I highly recommend looking at the recently released Adtran NetVanta 1544 or 1544P. When compared with an equivalent Cisco product, you’re going to find a strong feature parity (and even some areas which Adtran surpasses) and the price, warranty (limited LIFETIME), and support [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions · VoIP

Motorola MC70 and SoftIPT

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

 
The Motorola MC70 is an Enterprise Digital Assistant, that incorporates a mobile phone, PDA, computer, scanner or imager into a single hand held device. The MC70 offers integrated GPS capabilities, allowing companies to provide navigational support while tracking employees who are field based. The MC70 combines WWAN/WLAN/WPAN anywhere anytime voice and data communications.
 
Toshiba has taken [...]

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Mobility Solutions

April 10th, 2009 · No Comments

It seems like everyone wants to stay plugged in and be available 24×7 these days and ShoreTel has upped the ante on this capability with some enhancements to the ShoreTel Mobile Call Manager (MCM). The latest enhancement is location based presence. MCM, when coupled with a GPS enabled mobile phone that is supported by the [...]

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How to read your voicemails

April 7th, 2009 · No Comments

So you are on the road and frequently in a position where you would have opportunities to respond with email but not with a phone call or a voicemail.  Or you are in a seminar and information must be requested and transmitted.  The answer is simple, GotVoice, the voice to text application.
 
GotVoice, a provider of [...]

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ShoreTel 9.0

April 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

ShoreTel 9 has finally gone into controlled release and is shipping for new customers and those customers who have immediate need of one or more new features included with ST9. I’m posting some of information about what the new features are and I think there are some pretty good ones this time.

Simplified administration
Active Directory Integration [...]

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