Part two of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com's three-part guide on collaboration products offers expert insight into gathering pertinent information into the technical information necessary to move forward in the process. 

This comprehensive WLAN buyers guide explores the current trends and considerations you must make before making your WLAN purchase. 

The value of the IT market for smart cities globally is approximately $35bn, according to this in depth analysis from Ovum. 

This report from Ovum warns that enterprises need to recognise that they will need to move to IPv6, even if they have IPv4 addresses available. They should treat IPv6 like any other disaster recovery plan. 

Why would a person or organization be interested in deploying wireless communication in their home or business? This being said, there are some things to think about before jumping into the wireless world. As is usually the case in the wonderful world of networking, whenever one thing becomes simpler, it almost always complicates something else. 

The way we work is now open to wide-ranging review. The concept of the office as the ‘dumb’ container for work, housing the corporation and its infrastructure assets, will be challenged by a number of factors explored in this paper. Work, in the future, will only be a verb. It is becoming a process, not a place. 

This report from Microsoft presents a vision for the development of smart cities which bring together technology, architecture and people. 

Check out this white paper for best practices when planning and managing a comprehensive offsite backup and recovery strategy. Learn how careful planning with remote or branch offices (ROBOs) can allow for seamless data protection without compromise, and discover key questions to ask when planning remote office backup strategies. 

The tough economic climate will accelerate businesses take-up of “disruptive technologies”, such as cloud computing and mobile working, CIOs at Computer Weekly’s 500 Club heard. 

The growth in enterprise telepresence, projected to reach nearly 25,000 units globally by 2013, has been largely fueled by sponsorship from executives and the use of the telepresence by senior business leaders. 

When Bunnings, a retailer of home improvement and outdoor living products, needed to find a replacement for older storage systems that supported their vital business applications, they turned to IBM products. To learn how Bunnings benefited from this upgrade, read this case study. 

This report introduces best practices for understanding and improving the performance of mission-critical networked applications and provides pointers for what to look for in a measurement tool in a WAN optimized environment.