Network Management Strategies for the CIO
Networking Decisions 2004 continued to provide a combination of valuable strategic and technical content that our audience took back to their organizations to utilize immediately. We learned from celebrated networking experts, senior executives and industry analysts who revealed the most effective real-world solutions for managing and securing enterprise networks.
Voice over IP presentations
Best practices for securing IP telephony
Security is a prime concern for most organizations that are evaluating or implementing IP telephony. Moving voice onto the data network implies that all the vulnerabilities currently facing data networks will now be a risk for voice networks as well. In this session, Irwin Lazar, Practice Manager, Burton Group, explored the risk factors in IP telephony and provided best practices and strategies for risk mitigation.Requires Free Membership to View
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Fitting voice into your network
According to a recent Yankee Group Study, 87% of enterprises are either testing VoIP or have it partially deployed, but only 3% have it fully deployed across the organization. Many network managers struggle with how to take VoIP out of the lab and implement it in production environments with confidence that voice traffic will operate with the quality needed to support business use. Zeus Kerravala, Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure, Yankee Group, outlined the various options available to network managers today to deploy VoIP. He also focused on strategies for introducing voice in a data network without putting a company's business at risk.Click here to download this PowerPoint presentation.
Next generation IP telephony – moving beyond phone system replacement
In this session, Irwin Lazar, Practice Manager, Burton Group explored the future trends in IP telephony. He included the steps you need to take to move beyond phone system replacement and toward enabling presence-based converged communication. Irwin also discussed the trend toward combining instant messaging, presence, e-mail, voice, video and collaboration into a converged client. You will walk away with a whole new way of thinking about communication and the steps you need to take to get you on the road to successful IP telephony implementation.Click here to download this PowerPoint presentation.
Research results: Rating networking vendors and overall technology
Based on in-depth interviews with over 150 networking and information security executives, this presentation highlights the 2005-2006 networking technology implementation plans of Fortune 1000 enterprises. Over 30 different emerging technologies and infrastructure technologies will be discussed and the relative demand for each will be presented, based on direct user feedback. In addition, "voice of the customer" ratings and commentary on over 25 different networking technology vendors will be presented. Quotes from customers of these vendors will be used to illustrate the quantitative ratings of these vendors on 12 different corporate and product-specific criteria.Click here to download this PowerPoint presentation.
Networking Decisions 2005 will be held in Chicago, Nov. 8-10, 2005.
This was first published in November 2004
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