RECORDED ETA WEBINARS

Virtualized Voice & The Cloud

Originally presented: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Download - Zip file (recording is MP4 File) (27 megs)

In this recorded Expert Technology Associates Webinar, part of ETA's "Communications Technology Education" series, an ongoing program of online and "live" seminars designed to help you cut through the hype of emerging technology and truly understand its real risks, benefits, and other implications, we covered how your business can harness data center decentralization strategies to help:

• Optimize the resiliency and flexibility of your IT resources by enabling the fastest development time for new applications, providing the broadest support for various operating systems, and delivering the ability to support production-level applications on- and off-premise as needed
• Cut hardware and operational costs by up to 50% by letting fewer servers do the work that many previously performed
• Maximize the efficiency of IT resources and staff by condensing your physical data center and making voice management tasks simpler - Allowing your IT team to spend more time innovating rather than playing catch-up
• Reduce ongoing expenses by minimizing energy consumption and server provisioning costs
  

Hosted VoIP Best Practices

Originally presented: Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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In this recorded Expert Technology Associates Webinar, part of ETA's "Communications Technology Education" series, an ongoing program of online and "live" seminars designed to help you cut through the hype of emerging technology and truly understand its real risks, benefits, and other implications, we covered the best practices recommended by top industry insiders and experts to help avoid common pitfalls and maximize success when moving your phone system "out of the server room" and "into the cloud", including:

• How to ensure your Local Area Network (LAN) is capable of handling the real-time requirements of voice. Many Hosted VoIP implementations fall short of expectations because companies' Local Area Networks (LAN) aren't prepared to handle the real-time, high-bandwidth requirements of voice.
• Which types of Internet connectivity work with Hosted VoIP, and which kinds can cause you to have ongoing problems with dropped calls, choppy call quality, annoying "echos" and more. 
• Why heavily discounted, "plug and play" solutions fail 90% of the time.  Like other mission-critical applications on your network (e.g. CRM, ERP, accounting platform, etc.), Hosted VoIP is technically complex and will generally not live up to your expectations unless it's purposely configured to work with your IT infrastructure, bandwidth resources and business requirements