In February, 2009, Microsoft released their next major release, designated as R2, to their IP PBX product Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007. Several great features and enhancements to Microsoft's existing product make OCS 2007 R2 a significant contender in the Unified Communications (UC) marketplace. 

Inter-Process Communications (IPC) makes up the infrastructure that merges voice, data and video applications over a single network by enhancing IP telephony (VoIP) with technology such as conferencing, call transfers and forwarding. 

Since your legacy remote support tool probably doesn’t do what it is supposed to, access this whitepaper to uncover the top five reasons and benefits you can achieve by replacing it. 

This paper presumes that your enterprise already has a data network security policy in place. It examines the many different settings that are available to help secure the Cisco IP Phones from potential hacker attacks, and it looks at a selection of Cisco secure infrastructure technologies that are especially useful for protecting voice systems. 

In this SearchSOA.com tip guide, readers will learn legacy application migration best practices and the important considerations when wrappering, migrating, or rewriting mainframe applications. 

Check out “HP Networking for Dummies” to learn more about why legacy architectures just don’t cut it nowadays and the benefits of upgrading your architecture for today’s computing needs. 

In modernizing their applications, enterprises want faster integrations, using SOA only when it is pragmatic. They still wrapper mainframes with services, but they are also migrating functions within the mainframe portfolio. Check out this expert advice to learn how to implement both complex and simple integrations for the short and long term. 

Cisco, Red Hat, and Intel have partnered in delivery a three-part webinar focusing on the path to cloud enablement.  We start the discussion with legacy migration touching on RISC/UNIX migrations and the economic and performance benefits of the Cisco Unified Computing System utilizing the new Intel E7 processors. 

Regardless of industry, IT leaders must lower costs and keep pace with their company’s business growth, and are seeking alternatives to legacy infrastructure. This document is a compilation of five customer evaluations — all documented to demonstrate the business benefits customers have received by migrating to the new generation DL980 servers. 

Since mobility in the cloud has eliminated traditional network perimeters, legacy security methods are no longer adequate or effective. Enterprises must find new methods to secure themselves in the cloud. 

This paper shows the industry-wide acceptance of SIP and the recent advances of the open source software projects related to Voice over IP (VoIP). Read why the author firmly believes that the VoIP open source is still in its infancy, but its acceptance and product maturity will grow rapidly over the next few years. 

Legacy midsize computing systems offer limited processing abilities, but still require significant power and cooling resources. To maintain high performance, flexibility, reliability, and sustainable growth, midsize businesses need a game-changing platform. Oracle’s Sun systems based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provide that platform. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices.