Unified Communications: News

Cyberattacks are near the top of the list of most serious threats facing the U.S., with the rivaling concerns about terrorism and North Korea, intelligence officials with President Barack Obama's administration said.

Internet Explorer vulnerabilities warrant notice in this month's set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday bulletins and need to be fixed quickly even though the sheer number of patches may seem daunting.

NSC Group head of services, Col Rennie, has been in the newly-created position for a little over three weeks now. ARN caught up with him to discuss about his plans for the communications integrator and the trends affecting the service business.

CommVault has released version 10 of its data management software platform, Simpana.

Samsung Electronics has introduced the Android-based HomeSync media center, which can be used to watch movies, play games and also provide private and shared storage.

It seems Microsoft's unified communications system Lync is becoming so popular among businesses that it is the No.1 threat to the top vendors Cisco and Avaya. Cisco this week launched an online blogging campaign to point out Lync's shortcomings, and Avaya volunteered a nearly identical list of what it perceives as Lync limitations.

IP business communications solutions provider, Interactive Intelligence, is expanding its presence in Western Australia with the launch of its first office in the state and two new employee appointments.

Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft's first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco's enterprise UC offerings.

The heightened pressure on IT budgets within the public service sector is set to have a profound effect on the way government departments and local councils communicate with constituents in 2013, according to NSC Group managing director, Trevor Boal.

ICT solution provider, Huawei, has announced its fibre to the door (FTTD) solution, increasing broadband speeds from 100Mbit/s to 1Gbit/s.

The five forces of post-digital affecting Australian business are Cloud, mobile beyond smartphones and tablets, social, analytics and cyber defence.

The rise in service orientated purchasing and a move towards hosted offerings will be the major trends that drive the unified communications (UC) industry this year, according to newly appointed head of services at NSC Group, Col Rennie.

Supporting customers with the right products and services to match should be top of mind for the channel this year.

Unified communications (UC) vendor, Polycom, has appointed new executive sales leaders for two separate regions.

The IT industry in general tends to be focused on pushing a product or solution.

AT&T will expand its Business Exchange collaboration service by adding Polycom back-end infrastructure to complement the Cisco Systems technology it's been using for several years.

ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events, so we thought what better to do than put them all in a slideshow summing up the week in the channel. This week features company awards and partner events amongst others. Are you pictured in the first channel round-up for the year?

It's the inside story every channel business knows will deliver the information it's business needs - ARN's annual State of the IT Channel.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicked off in the Las Vegas Convention Centre on January 8, and will finish on January 11. The event showcases existing and upcoming products from global vendors. Here are some of the highlights.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicked off in the Las Vegas Convention Centre on January 8, and will finish on January 11. The event showcases existing and upcoming products from global vendors. Here are some of the highlights.