McAfee, Eguardian launch security-as-a-service in ASEAN By Networks Asia staff 15-Jan-2013 Singapore-based Eguardian will offer McAfee‘s enterprise grade, cloud-based anti-virus platform as security-as-a-service (SaaS) for small and medium businesses in South East Asia. According to Eguardian, security-as-a-service can be easily deployed with a measurable return on investment while minimizing system migration impact. This customized solution is supported by over 120 Eguardian staff with local [...]

By Networks Asia staff 15-Jan-2013 Singapore-based online games publisher, operator and distributor Infocomm Asia Holdings claimed itself to be the first gaming company in Southeast Asia to run its gaming operations using unified computing. Unified computing brings together computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture. This is expected to improve end-to-end server visibility, management and control. Through using Corous360, [...]

Survey: 69% APAC businesses intend to adopt hybrid cloud By Asia Cloud Forum editors 15-Jan-2013 New survey findings by Coleman Parkes Research indicated that 69% of organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan intended to adopt a hybrid cloud delivery model. The survey, titled “HP cloud and information optimization,” was commissioned by HP and was conducted globally in October 2012. The 550 respondents comprised senior [...]

By Brian Lavallée, Ciena 15-Jan-2013 According to the Reliability of Global Undersea Communication Cable Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) report, “nearly 100% of the world’s inter-continental electronic communications traffic is carried by the undersea cable infrastructure.” (Proceeding of the ROGUCCI Study and Global Summit, Issue 1, Revision 1, 2010, IEEE Communications Society) This means submarine networks that interconnect continents are critical components that must be taken into [...]

In “The Asian State of the Cloud 2012″ survey conducted by Asia Cloud Forum in August and November last year, 46.7% of the survey respondents reported to have adopted infrastructure-as-a-service (Compare this with 43.4% that have adopted software-as-a-service, and 26.7% that have adopted platform-as-a-service). Among the IaaS-adopting organizations, 47.9% indicated they have implemented server capacity on demand, 39% have adopted storage capacity on demand, [...]

XO Hosted PBX Recognized for IP Communications Innovation HERNDON, VA–(Marketwire – Jan 14, 2013) – XO Communications announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named XO Hosted PBX as a recipient of the 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award for being one of the most innovative IP communications services over the past year. XO Hosted PBX can be fully integrated [...]

Vendor Community These are the vendors who can help you implement your unified communications strategy. Their products and services are reviewed in this section. Our community of vendors encompasses almost all categories of this industry, such as: internet telephony, VoIP software and VoIP solutions, CEBP, collaboration, presence, unified messaging, SIP, IP phones, voice mail, IP PBX, mobility, and social networking. This entry passed through [...]

See UCStrategies Experts Jon Arnold and Blair Pleasant, January 30-February 1, in Miami. Jon Arnold’s sessions: Blair Pleasant’s sessions: Unified Communications: What’s Really Going on and Why – Thursday at 1:30, Enterprise Solutions Track Customer Service: The Organizational Imperative - Friday at 9:00, Customer Interaction Track This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you’re reading it on someone else’s site, [...]