This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future. 

<p>This Forrester Consulting research examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment enterprises may realize by using Cisco Catalyst Access Switches in their organization. Read now to learn how these switches address the major market discontinuities enterprises often face in their campus access networks.</p> 

This expert E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com discusses the top five unified communications issues for 2012 and how these will affect the transformation and evolution of UC for the better. 

Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com takes a look at the coming decade and what you can expect from the world of communications and collaboration by the year 2020. 

This brief webcast explores Avaya’s Collaborative Cloud strategy, which wishes to showcase how the cloud can improve your communications and collaboration, changing the way your enterprise works. 

Managing your network is no easy task, hence the reason managed service providers (MSPs) exist. In this resource, explore the advantages of outsourcing to an MSP and best practices for finding the right MSP for your organization. 

<p>This paper explains how packet loss can be properly measured throughout an enterprise, and what can be done to mitigate its effects in real-time.</p> 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

<p>Learn how to communicate more effectively with your boss in this guide from Dr Brian Sutton and Dr Robina Chatham. </p> <p> </p> 

Learn how to get visibility into IPv6 traffic – how much, what applications, who’s doing it – to take full control of your IPv6 transitions. Blue Coat PacketShaper provides real-time application and content-level visibility and QoS control of IPv6 and all application traffic on the network. 

<p>In this case study, learn how a bank improved their crisis management communications with help from BlackBerry Solution.</p> 

In earlier times, if an enterprise presumed it had control over its network, and if it had few external connections or communication, it was feasible that the connections between operational computers probably were not an unacceptable risk.