As part of the Open Minds road show with Siemens Enterprise Communications, I've been stressing that with UC, we're in a place today where companies still have the opportunity for first-mover advantage. Since UC isn't a question of "if," but "when," those organizations that move now toward next-generation communications will get several years of...
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Archive for June, 2010
With Unified Communications, You Can Still See a Competitive Advantage
Zeus on Cius
On Tuesday at the Cisco Live show, Cisco unveiled its latest collaboration device. The new Cisco device called the Cius (pronounced see-us and rhymes with Zeus) is a tablet that can dock into a base station and can act as video phone. When undocked the device operates as a tablet computer that can...
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Cisco’s Cius Equals THE Dawning Days Of Device Divergence & Services Convergence
Back in 2007 I penned a post that was all about divergence. While convergence remains the rage in many parts, and still is looming, I have felt for three years or so that divergent devices are the key to communications. Well it seems Cisco thinks the same way with the Cius (cute name and...
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Avaya & HP Conclude Go-to-Market Deal
Avaya and HP today announced a new three-year agreement for HP's services arm to bring Avaya's complete product portfolio into the set of solutions they sell for Unified Communications and collaboration.
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With Cisco Announcement, Tablets are Indeed the New Phones
Today at its big CiscoLive event in Las Vegas, Cisco announced a tablet device running on the Android OS and targeted at business users.
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