Enabling today’s workforce requires businesses to think outside of the meeting room. Remote employees, mobile-reliant teams, and an increased need for collaboration all require new tools and technology to get the job done successfully.
In this issue we focus on The Next Big Thing.

Ready or Not: It’s up to your SD-WAN

You have a long-distance relationship with multiple clouds and pieces of your network, and that makes it hard to maintain the performance and security you need. What would happen if you could connect everything? Here’s what a day looks like with and without a connected, unified multicloud network.

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Contributor: Cisco

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Polycom Trio: Smart conferencing for all your meeting rooms.

Polycom Trio VisualPro is a dedicated hardware solution based on the Group Series 310 codec. This solution is to be bundled with Polycom Trio collaboration kits to enable features such as dual displays, HDMI content and support for our EagleEye camera product line.

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Contributor: Polycom

3 Insights for IT Leaders Driving Digital Transformation

In this digital era, IT leaders are the change agents within their organizations. The final day of ConnectCentral 2018 prepared IT leaders for their return home with the mission of uniting cloud communications with their broader digital transformation strategies.

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Contributor: RingCentral

Software Defined VOICE Network: The Next Big Thing!

Never heard of Software Defined Voice Networking (SDvN)?   Not to worry, just imagine the benefits and capabilities of SDN applied to your voice network.  AudioCodes believes that voice is a critical component to achieve successful digital transformation.  We have developed a unique technology called Software Defined Voice Networking (SDvN) designed as the centralized intelligence for voice routing command and control, independent of technology.

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Contributor: AudioCodes

The Digital Enterprise:  One technology platform for the entire workplace

Combining UC, AV, scheduling, and ambient signage from Appspace onto a single platform, deployed and managed through the award winning XiO Cloud service, Crestron technology works together to create a stress-free experience throughout the workday for both end-users and the technology staff.

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Contributor: Crestron

The ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape

“The security industry tends to look at future trends as monumental shifts in attack methodologies, security technologies, or predictions. In reality, shifts in attack methodologies, security technologies, and observations tend to be incremental. Spending 20% of your time enhancing controls on the security essentials can easily yield 80% of your security improvements. The remaining time should be spent on exploring more advanced technologies that can help fill some of the more niche gaps in your security program. In the coming year, shifts in attacks will be incremental if the same old attacks continue to work as they have in the past.” — Jason Rebholz, Senior Director at Gigamon

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Contributor: Gigamon

Planning for the Microsoft Exchange Online UM Deadline and Exchange Server 2019

Microsoft has made two announcements affecting Unified Messaging (UM), disrupting organizations across a variety of markets. Since UM is a mission-critical component to any organization’s communications, it’s important to get a clear understanding of what the recent Microsoft announcements mean, who they will impact, and how. Let’s take a closer look.

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Contributor: AVST

The Next Big Thing from West Safety Services: Location Manager

Softphones are becoming ever-more prevalent in enterprises and SMBs alike. Organization of all types and sizes are deploying these devices to allow their users greater flexibility to communicate and collaborate from virtually anywhere. With this flexibility, however, comes a challenge: if users can work from anywhere, how do you know where they are in an emergency?

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Contributor: West

Addressing Operational Technology Cyber Risk Challenges

With the increase in threats targeting non-traditional devices, the lack of comprehensive solutions and tools to address the full range of Operational Technology (OT) cyber risk challenges have made industrial environments vulnerable. Together, ForeScout and SecurityMatters provide expanded capabilities and advanced features to secure OT and Industrial environments.

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Contributor: Forescout

Programming the Future of Enterprise Communications

For generations, how businesses communicated with their customers, partners and internally has been dictated by their service providers and communications vendors. The convergence of voice over IP (VoIP), cloud-based services and most recently, communications platforms as a service (CPaaS) has upended the lopsided relationship between businesses and their communications suppliers.

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Contributor: Intelepeer

5 Big Trends that Will Continue to Shape the RTC Industry in 2019

The real time communications (RTC) industry continues to evolve at warp speed and 2018 was no exception. As Communications Service Providers and enterprises continually try to maintain their dominance in an increasingly competitive digital landscape, here are the five big trends we’re seeing that will continue to shape the RTC space in 2019 and beyond.

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Contributor: Ribbon

Contemporary Collaboration: Designing the Perfect Meeting Space

How do you make sure your meeting spaces are ready and able to meet the tasks at hand? How do you make sure the meeting technology is helping productivity rather than hindering it? The right meeting room design—and the right collaboration tools—can make all the difference.

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Contributor: Viewsonic

Better Experiences For Cisco UC&C Users

Often overlooked, or neglected, user experiences are important. Poor quality of UC sometimes provided by enterprises to their customers, impacts worker productivity, customer satisfaction and brand reputation. In this podcast, Nectar defines what we mean by customer experience and what customer experience ROI.

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Contributor: Nectar