31 Articles Tagged virtualization

Next-Generation IT: What Does It Really Look Like? | Avaya Blog
Networking

Next-Generation IT: What Does It Really Look Like?

  • avayablog
  • March 20, 2017 | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes to read
    • From mainframes to virtualization to the IoT, we’ve come a long way in a very short amount of time in terms of networking, OS and…
How to (Finally) Break the Longstanding Hold of Legacy Technology | Avaya Blog
Networking

How to (Finally) Break the Longstanding Hold of Legacy Technology

  • avayablog
  • March 14, 2017 | Estimated reading time: 8 minutes to read
    • Without question, we’ve seen more technological innovation in the last 30 years than we have in the last century. We now live in a reality…
Networking

How Enterprise Virtualization Will Save Your Business in the Era of IoT

  • Randy Cross
  • November 30, 2015 | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes to read
    • Having a backyard full of trees is quite therapeutic during a marathon day of conference calls, but it also comes with a fair share of…
Cloud

Why a Phased Approach to Communications-in-the-Cloud Makes Sense

  • Luke Stangel
  • September 1, 2015 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes to read
    • As IT departments refresh their assets, an increasing number of decision-makers are taking a close look at cloud-based software to replace aging, on-premise hardware. The…
Networking

Why Avaya + VMware = SDN Success

  • Luke Stangel
  • August 31, 2015 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes to read
    • Why it doesn’t have to be an either-or decision between the underlay and the overlay Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization, virtualization, data center automation,…
Unified Communications

Vishing - Another Form of Social Engineering

  • Mark J. Fletcher, ENP
  • October 31, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes to read
    • Recently, a customer reached out to me and asked me to comment on the current state of Vishing, or Voice Phishing, as it applies to…
Cloud

10 Questions to Help You Identify the Ideal Private Cloud

  • Pat Patterson
  • September 3, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes to read
    • Companies with contact centers are migrating to the cloud at an even faster pace than we previously noted in June. Many others are moving from…
Networking

The Top 10 Things You Need To Know About Fabric Connect

  • Mark J. Fletcher, ENP
  • August 23, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes to read
    • Avaya’s Fabric Connect technology offers a refreshing new approach to building networks, delivering an agile, and resilient solution that makes network configuration and service deployment…
Networking

Four Critical Network Virtualization Trends for the Next Four Years

  • Luke Stangel
  • August 22, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes to read
    • Soon, more than 4 million students will go to their first day of high school. By the time these young adults don their caps and…
Cloud

Why Today's Avaya Collaboration Pod News is a Big Deal

  • Luke Stangel
  • May 8, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes to read
    • Have you ever used a Swiss Army Knife? It’s full of everything you could conceivably need in a pocket-sized tool: knives, files, a magnifying glass…
Networking

Why We're Joining the OpenDaylight Project

  • Jaime Weaver
  • April 30, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes to read
    • Interior design, gardening, and marketing all share a rule stating that individual elements seem more balanced when they are grouped in threes.  While home décor,…
Networking

Q&A: Avaya's Alan Hase On Keeping the Network Simple

  • Mark J. Fletcher, ENP
  • April 1, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 10 minutes to read
    • Networking used to a fairly straightforward affair: Computers talked to servers and not a whole lot else. Mobile devices introduced a new level of bandwidth-intensive…
Networking

Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy at Enterprise Connect 2014: How Fabric Connect Eliminates Network Suffering

  • Luke Stangel
  • March 20, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes to read
    • Are networks complicated these days? You bet. The demands have never been higher, as an explosion of applications over a multitude of devices call for…
Networking

Avaya Pulls in Two Nominations for "Best of Interop" Award

  • Camille Campbell
  • March 17, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes to read
    • "It’s an honor just being nominated." Featureflash/Shutterstock How many times leading up to a prominent awards ceremony--whether it be the Oscars or the Grammys--do you…
Cloud

Q&A: Avaya's Service Provider Chief, Joe Manuele, on Our Cloud Strategy, Momentum

  • Luke Stangel
  • March 12, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes to read
    • Joe Manuele is Vice President of Global Service Providers, System Integrators, Alliances, and Cloud for Avaya. I spoke with Joe earlier this week about what's…
Cloud

How to Virtualize ALL of Avaya Aura on a Single Server

  • Mark J. Fletcher, ENP
  • February 12, 2014 | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes to read
    • Paul Leatherman is the CTO at CRI (Communication Resources, Inc.), a major Avaya partner and systems integrator. I first interviewed Paul, an Avaya veteran, at the…