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This IDC study represents the vendor assessment model called the IDC MarketScape. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's chances for present and future success worldwide. This study assesses the capability and business strategy of 12 global enterprise videoconferencing vendors. This evaluation is based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters expected to be most conducive to success in providing enterprise videoconferencing solutions, for both the short term and the long term.

When it comes to effectively and efficiently protecting growing volumes of data, midsized organizations face unique challenges. That is because they live in a world of constraints that are both operational and budgetary in nature. Cloud disaster recovery offers new options for these organizations—they can optimize their data protection economics by integrating on-premises protection solutions with cloud-based backup and recovery methods. Dell EMC’s cloud-ready solutions, particularly its Integrated Data Protection Appliances with native cloud extension capabilities, along with its Data Protection Software working in conjunction with its Data Domain backup storage appliances, provide cloud disaster recovery with flexible features. These solutions enhance operational efficiency and provide midsized organizations with clear economic and operational benefits.

Discover the four big trends in fleet management being powered by location services. Trends to help you differentiate your solutions and enable transportation companies to overcome their logistical challenges and increase asset utilization. Discover what’s making the biggest impact, together with how, by integrating some of these trends into your solutions, you can position yourself as the service provider of choice in fleet and transportation management solutions. And find out how HERE is delivering features, from comprehensive mapping capabilities and real-time location data, to truck-specific attributes, to help you do just that. Download the eBook now

To successfully meet customer demands for more immediate, personalized attention, companies are leveraging new technologies that go beyond traditional voice and email. By implementing such channels as live chat, social media, mobile apps, SMS/text messages, self-help solutions, and more, companies can now be ready wherever and however the customer wants. The following report, sponsored by Zendesk, is based on an online survey of 1,044 U.S. consumers who have received online or phone customer service. The research goal was to better understand present customer expectations and to quantify the impact of customer service on business results. Questions were asked about past experiences with customer service, as well as preferences and opinions. Certain questions were repeated from a similar 2013 survey to enable trend analysis.

If you’re dealing with the high cost and complexities of delivering reliable wide area connectivity over traditional carrier-based networks, you’re probably considering some form of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). With the variety of constraints that you face, selecting the right SD-WAN solution for your enterprise may require a few compromises. Security, however, should not be one of them. There are various models for combining SD-WAN and network security, but only one that can truly be called “secure SD-WAN.” Fortinet, the most trusted name in network security, has leveraged its industry-leading FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) to deliver integrated best-of-breed SD-WAN capabilities. Powered by the new FortiOS 6.0 operating system, SD-WANenabled FortiGate solutions provide the right level of service for every application, while ensuring effective protection from advanced evolving threats across your distributed enterprise.

Mobile security is making the role of today’s CISO more complicated than ever. Watch the webinar for a discussion of current threats, a review of mobile security solutions, and best practices for adoption and implementation.

There is no doubt that customers want to protect their environment against unplanned downtime. But what happens when disasters do occur? Download this webinar for a deep dive into the VMware Cloud on AWS Disaster Recovery (DR) use case. Experts from VMware and AWS jointly discuss the disaster recovery challenges that customers often face and detail how you can leverage VMware Cloud on AWS to overcome them. See demos of how you can use VMware Cloud on AWS for your DR scenario and hear from current customers. Download our webinar to learn The benefits of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), delivering on-site protection How automated orchestration accelerates failover and failback capabilities The ways DRaaS simplifies and modernizes your existing DR solutions What VMware Cloud on AWS DRaaS does to help reduce costs, simplify operations, and quicken recovery times

Downtime Is Not an Option: High Availability Next Generation Firewall Access to applications, data, and resources on the Internet is mission-critical for every organization. Downtime is unacceptable. Security for that network must also be highly available and not cause performance degradation of the network. The increased workload of security devices as they analyze traffic and defend users from malicious attacks strains computing resources. The next generation of security solutions must build in high availability that can scale as the business changes. Download this whitepaper to find out how high availability is at the core of the Forcepoint NGFW (Next Generation Firewall).

Downtime Is Not an Option: High Availability Next Generation Firewall Access to applications, data, and resources on the Internet is mission-critical for every organization. Downtime is unacceptable. Security for that network must also be highly available and not cause performance degradation of the network. The increased workload of security devices as they analyze traffic and defend users from malicious attacks strains computing resources. The next generation of security solutions must build in high availability that can scale as the business changes. Download this whitepaper to find out how high availability is at the core of the Forcepoint NGFW (Next Generation Firewall).

Christian Kane is an Enterprise Mobility Management Research Analyst with Forrester Research, where he helps clients develop and improve their desktop and mobile strategy. His research spans mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, and mobile applications.

Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised

Finding a balance between providing employees with mobility and diversity, and ensuring enterprise IT remains secure and cost effective, can be difficult for businesses to achieve. With 53% of IT leaders struggling to keep up with the increasing diversity of devices, organizations need a solution that can help them overcome these challenges. This webinar discusses how Dell PC Lifecyle family of solutions can streamline the needs of the workforce and satisfy a business’ IT requirements. Learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel®

Finding a balance between providing employees with mobility and diversity, and ensuring enterprise IT remains secure and cost effective, can be difficult for businesses to achieve. With 53% of IT leaders struggling to keep up with the increasing diversity of devices, organizations need a solution that can help them overcome these challenges. This webinar discusses how Dell PC Lifecyle family of solutions can streamline the needs of the workforce and satisfy a business’ IT requirements. Learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel®

Finding a balance between providing employees with mobility and diversity, and ensuring enterprise IT remains secure and cost effective, can be difficult for businesses to achieve. With 53% of IT leaders struggling to keep up with the increasing diversity of devices, organizations need a solution that can help them overcome these challenges. This webinar discusses how Dell PC Lifecyle family of solutions can streamline the needs of the workforce and satisfy a business’ IT requirements. Learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel®

This research finds that huddle spaces deliver tremendous value to businesses, with 9 out of 10 participants stating the adoption of open space environments is increasing the need for these huddle spaces. Huddle spaces require a wide variety of technologies to enable users and the business, such as audio and video conferencing abilities, digital whiteboards and scheduling solutions. Users stated that ease of use, solution reliability, and similar technology in each huddle space is key to their productivity. But nearly 8 out 10 users shared they were frustrated with meeting room technology recently. These problems generate support calls to IT on a weekly, if not daily, basis

Today, mobility is no longer a trend. It’s an established reality reshaping the enterprise. This white paper is the third in a three-part series on enabling the mobile enterprise while securing information and protecting your organization.

In Forrester’s 40-criteria evaluation of subscription billing platform solutions, we identified the eight most significant vendors in the category — Apttus, Aria Systems, Digital River, goTransverse, Recurly, SAP hybris, Vindicia, and Zuora — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help eBusiness professionals select the right partner as they seek to develop and support alternative business models for both existing and new products and services.

Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Human Capital Management (HCM) evaluates solutions in the context of specific, important use cases and provides a comparative analysis. SAP SuccessFactors received highest use case scores for Core HR+Talent HCM Suites for Larger Global Org and European HQ’d Midmarket HCM Suite.

For midsize firms around the world with 100 to 999 employees, advanced technology plays an increasingly important role in business success. Companies have been adding cloud resources to supplement on-premise server, storage, and networking capabilities. At the same time, growth of mobile and remote workers is also changing how companies need to support workers to allow them to be as productive as possible. Like larger companies, midsize firms must make sure that they are effectively coordinating on-premise, public cloud, and private cloud capabilities. Unlike large companies, though, midsize firms are limited in both financial and technical resources to design and coordinate effective solutions to meet specific needs. Rather than invest in a major overhaul of their IT environments, midsize firms have to move incrementally, supplementing current resources with new cloud and on-premise capabilities that provide the performance needed to prosper in an increasingly competitive environment.

The top data protection mandates from IT leaders are focused on improving the fundamental reliability and agility of the solution(s) in use. The mandate that follows closely behind is cost reduction, which is also seen as a top priority among data protection implementers. These challenges should not be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive; in fact, they can all be addressed by improved data protection solutions that are engineered as much for efficiency as they are for reliability and capability.

As businesses plunge into the digital future, no asset will have a greater impact on success than data. The ability to collect, harness, analyze, protect, and manage data will determine which businesses disrupt their industries, and which are disrupted; which businesses thrive, and which disappear. But traditional storage solutions are not designed to optimally handle such a critical business asset. Instead, businesses need to adopt an all-flash data center. In their new role as strategic business enablers, IT leaders have the responsibility to ensure that their businesses are protected, by investing in flexible, future-proof flash storage solutions. The right flash solution can deliver on critical business needs for agility, rapid growth, speed-to-market, data protection, application performance, and cost-effectiveness—while minimizing the maintenance and administration burden.

When thinking about how the workforce is evolving, you need to think about what really matters to employees and how you can integrate technology in the workplace for the digital nomads of today. Corporate real estate, IT, and HR executives need to do a lot to meet those needs and achieve their HR goals. Cisco has the expertise needed to deliver high-quality mobility and collaboration solutions. We make business-critical communications possible in real time, across multiple channels. Cisco Workforce Experience offers are complete, enterprise-class solutions designed to scale smoothly and make your vision of the digital workspace a reality.

Modern networks are vast and complex, spanning the globe to make information available to everyone within an organization and have begun to encompass new areas of technology. The Internet has unlocked tremendous new capabilities and technologies, but these innovations require persistent and reliable network connectivity. Cisco Meraki offers a comprehensive portfolio of cloud-managed IT solutions designed to work together to help deliver a modern network that is powerful, reliable, and easy to manage. This whitepaper discusses modern IT trends and explores how the Cisco Meraki portfolio of IT solutions work together to help deliver reliable, pervasive connectivity for the modern business.

In today’s mobile and digital world, IT speed and agility are essential. Which is why organizations are turning to converged infrastructure solutions to get the results they need to transform their business. A 2015 IDC white paper reveals how VCE customers around the world are leveraging convergence to deliver faster business outcomes.

In today’s mobile and digital world, IT speed and agility are essential. Which is why organizations are turning to converged infrastructure solutions to get the results they need to transform their business. A 2015 IDC white paper reveals how Dell EMC customers around the world are leveraging convergence to deliver faster business outcomes.