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

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

NEW : HP Converged Infrastructure Case study (Westcoast Ltd)

As you may be aware Westcoast (us) have been expanding over the last couple of years, now with offices in Theale, Nottingham and Ireland. Our I.T infrastructure was due a refresh so we decided to "practice what we preach" and see if the claims HP made could indeed turn into real £££££ savings.

So with this additional expansion requirement we needed to increase our infrastructure capability whilst keeping return on investment as high as possible. Westcoast decided to look at HP's Converged Infrastructure by using the HP BladeSystem, HP ProLiant BL460G6 servers, P2000 SAN's and Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualisation of our servers.
 
Please read our HP case study and discover how you too can reduce running costs, after all  we managed a saving of £72,000 per year just based on power usage!! Not to mention other savings streams such as management time, recovery and resilience.

Westcoast Deploys HP Converged Infrastructure

If you are interested in looking at reducing your operational costs by consolidating servers and using virtualisation technologies like we have, then please do not hesitate to contact the Solutions team where we can create solutions based on your individual requirements.

Regards

Technical ISS Solutions Team