Why should you consider Microsoft Lync?

Microsoft Lync is a unified communications software which delivers streamlined communications for the users in your business. Work across different locations and time zones using a variety of communication methods such as instant messaging, conferencing, and enterprise voice. Microsoft unified communications can also help organisations reduce the operating costs of travel, telecom and IT, while allowing them to improve their business outcomes in a sustainable way.

The key six benefits of MS Lync

• Control Costs
• Improve Productivity
• Support the mobile workforce
• Gain operational efficiencies
• Be more responsive to customers, partners, and employees
• Maintain regulatory compliance

So why choose Microsoft? – Click on the link to compare Microsoft to the competition in the market place including; Google Apps, IBM, Cisco, Open Office and Salesforce.com

Case Studies from MS Lync in the United Kingdom

• West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
• Royal Mail
• JJ Food Service

If you need any help with providing a unified communications solution for your customer then please do not hesitate to contact the solutions team.

Regards

Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP Releases 300GB 15k SFF Drive.

HP have launched their new 300GB 15k Small form factor drives.

The Part number for this new drive is 627117-B21 and is only available in hot plug at this time.
As always with HP's ENT drives this carries a 3yr warranty...

To all our readers...We are back!

Over the last couple of weeks we have been having a few technical issues with regards to logging into blogger to provide you updates on all the new developments & releases from HP.

As you can see I now have access again, so during the day today I will be posting up all the information that is still relevant to this month and some details of new releases.

Regards

Technical ISS Solutions Team

NEWS : HP Plan to build servers using ARM based Processors.

It looks like that HP has announced that they will be looking to use ARM based processors in some of their future server technologies. Whilst we all know that ARM processor technology is currently used in Smart phones, tablets and some terminal client machines for their high processing / low power design, there is an opportunity to use this technology in the Server market.

HP have stressed that while this technology will allow lower running costs (power and cooling) as well as around a 94% decrease in required space, it should be viewed as an alternative rather than a replacement to Intel's more powerful products. For example they mention that ARM based Servers would be good for delivering static web, whilst leaving the current processor giants to do the heavier number crunching applications.

Two new HP Networking case studies

• Nantes Habitat sees a two-year return on investment after implementing an HP AllianceONE solution.

Nantes Habitat, a French social housing corporation, deploys an HP Networking-Aastra solution to increase network performance, availability, security and manageability, and support IP telephony across several sites. It estimates a return on investment of two years.

Customer solution at a glance:

Primary solution
• HP CloudSystem Service Provider including:
• 2 x HP E8200 zl Switch Series
• 2 x HP E5400 zl Switch Series
• 17 x HP E2910 al Switch Series
• 2 x HP AllianceONE Services zl Modules

Primary applications
• Branch office
• Security
• Unified communications and collaboration
• Network software management
• Converged Infrastructure

Primary software
• HP PCM+
• HP IDM
• Aastra 5000 IPBX Call Server

Link to Case Study:
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-5464EEW

• HP reinvents networking interoperability, readies enterprises for the future at May 2011 Interop in Las Vegas

Networking tradeshow, Interop (by UBM TechWeb), showcases cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobility, and data center advances. HP proved the reality of converged, multi-vendor networking in the cloud with HP FlexNetwork Architecture.

Customer solution at a glance:

HP Services
• Technology consulting for InteropNet

Primary hardware
• HP A12508 Switch
• HP A5820 Switch
• HP A5800 Switch
• HP A5500 Switch
• HP A8808 Router
• HP A6604 Router
• HP S5100N
• HP NJ2000 1Gb IntelliJack Switch
• HP C3000 Blade Enclosure
• HP ProLiant BL495c Server Blade

Primary software
• HP FlexNetwork Architecture
• HP Intelligent Management

Link to Case Study:
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-7400ENW

If you have a Networking solution you wish to implement or would like help or more details on HP's range of networking solutions, then please do not hesitate to contact the Solutions team.

Regards

Technical ISS Solutions Team