The end users of many on-premises and hosted Cisco Unified Communication customers have never been able to communicate natively from their Cisco Jabber clients to their third-party business partners who use Microsoft’s Lync or Skype for Business. It’s as if they were on opposite sides of a river with no “bridge” to cross, leaving them…

In the first blog of this series, Components of a Holistic Mobility Solution we described several components that are integral to a full mobility solution. This included the management of devices and applications, applications and client virtualization, data access and protection as well as identity management. In this post, we are going to discuss mobile…

“How do I get the most out of my investment?” It’s a question all IT organizations ask themselves when they review applications they have in their environment, especially when considering upgrades and migrations. This question can and ought to be answered with both technical and user adoption considerations in mind. And it presents quite the…

We’ve come to think of copying or transferring data as actually “moving” or “flowing,” like water through pipes or tubes. A popular, silly characterization of the internet as a “series of tubes” went viral in 2006 and was widely lampooned or adopted as fact, depending on the observer’s level of knowledge. But, of course, what…

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to reduce costs, boost productivity and increase revenues, and they are turning to collaboration tools to do so. However, with the dizzying array of options and the daily enhancements to endpoints, applications and infrastructure, it’s hard to keep up with the right approach or what to choose. So to…

With more than 350 million devices now running Windows 10, the Microsoft operating system has become one of the most widely used platforms in the world.

If you have invested in any of Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions – such as Azure, Office 365, Intune and Enterprise Mobility Suite – it is likely you’ve heard the term Digital Partner of Record or DPOR for short.

You have deployed some virtual machines into Azure, AWS, Google, Rackspace — or all of the above. Your email and a growing number of applications are being hosted not just in your data center, but also in the cloud. The tools you have been using to monitor and manage these platforms don’t work so well…

Microsoft recently revealed a strategic change to its Enterprise Agreement that will raise the minimum commitment for commercial customers as a way to simplify the purchasing process. Beginning July 1, 2016, new enterprise enrollments and enterprise subscription enrollments must commit to at least 500 users or devices, up from 250. Customers licensed under an existing…

When discussing Office 365 capabilities, it becomes clear that many customers need a better way to secure and manage their data in the context of their legal and regulatory needs. These three topics arise in nearly every conversation: How well can I control my data? How well can I secure my data? How do I…