Blackboard needs a highly available, very scalable platform for its mission-critical learning management system offered through managed hosting from six global data centers. Ease of set-up and monitoring are of paramount importance. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers and Intel processors make it happen. 

This e-book provides a roadmap for building a unified communications business case and offers practical strategies for implementing short-term projects with long-term payback, establishing metrics for ROI evaluation, and setting the stage for adoption of richer collaboration capabilities in the future. 

IT executives no longer need to justify their use of Voice over IP—the technology works. It saves companies money, and it enables communication across global boundaries. As companies grow more global, and workers more virtual, employees must be able to communicate with co-workers, partners, customers and suppliers anytime, anywhere. 

As companies become more global and more virtual, executives are realizing the value of visual communications: Only by seeing the people they’re working with can employees truly collaborate as though they are in the same room, even if they’re continents apart. 

An intriguing triple-play is emerging - the combination of video communications, managed services and unified communications - to create a new approach to inter- and intra-company collaboration and operational excellence.