I’ve been to Las Vegas before when I attended Cisco Live 2011, but this is my first time attending the Interop IT Expo and Conference. Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, and Interop — what a combo.

Like the majority of folks attending, as we walk by the slot machines, craps tables, and roulette wheels, I’m looking forward to learning more about emerging IT topics such as cloud computing and virtualization, data center and storage, and wireless and mobility, as well as security and risk management.

Currently, most enterprises mold their mobile security strategies around compliance measures  —  such as US  requirements like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)  —  relating to how personal information, both stored and in motion, is protected by businesses. Government regulations, the lawsuits, fines, and reputational damage that can result from noncompliance, and security breaches are all significant […]

“Ensure people can be reached when needed” has become a key tactic, perhaps even strategy, for many businesses. Along with other technologies, mobile Unified Communications (UC) can be an important component in reaching that goal. Cisco has put a great deal of effort into mobile-enabling their UC products, and today I want to take a quick look […]

In the first blog dealing with Device Mobility feature, we looked at the major components that go into the configuration of this exciting feature. Now, let’s look  at how the device pool parameters drive this feature to the phones when they roam from one physical  location to the next. Let’s see how the Physical location is […]

An exciting bit of programming that can be done on Cisco Communication Manager Version 6 and above is to configure a feature called Device Mobility. The idea of device mobility is that people are generally mobile and move their devices around from one location to another. For instance, say you have configured IP Softphones for […]

Cisco’s online TechWise TV channel tackles making smartphone users more productive by giving them access to powerful unified communications and collaboration tools on virtually any mobile device. Take control of the mobility revolution and support your smartphone users while maintaining security policies and reducing mobile communications expenses.

Unified Communications (UC) may have different meanings depending on who you ask, but the industry has now established what exactly the makeup of UC is, and the minimal applications  that have work together. All vendors also agree that if enterprise customers fully embrace this concept, it will change the way their employee’s will communicate with […]

The biggest challenge in any phone system is having your customers reach your key employees, despite the employee’s location or telephony device(s) they are using. If you take a quick inventory, you’ll note that most of your employees have an average of three phone numbers by which they can be reached. At one point I was […]