Mitel Discovery Series

Mitel Discovery Series: Discover the business benefits of virtualizing voice applications

Presented by: Parag Patel, VMware - VP of Alliances & Stephen Beamish, Mitel VP of Business Development
Date: December 08, 2009, 1pm EST

Virtualization as a concept is not new - however, in 2009 it has suddenly propelled itself to front-of-mind for organizations of all sizes looking to streamline data center costs while simplifying network deployment. With over 70% of IT budgets typically dedicated to infrastructure upkeep, businesses need a way to focus on innovation rather then network plumbing. Leading information technology research and advisory company Gartner named virtualization the top strategic technology to watch in 2009
(http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=777212).

The one area, key to businesses that has not had the opportunity to benefit from virtualization is - voice. Vendors have not been able to overcome the technological complexity of virtualizing real-time voice applications. Until now. VMware, the leader in virtualization, with over 130,000 customers (including 100% of the Fortune 100) and Mitel®, have solved the challenge. Mitel has collaborated with industry leader VMware to allow unified communications applications to run in a virtualized environment (http://www.mitel.com/DocController?documentId=33469). By breaking down the barriers between the 'telecom closet' and the data centre, IT managers can now minimize voice management tasks, and consolidate voice and non-voice applications on a single server. The flexibility provided by virtualization means deployment and management of mobility, conferencing, collaboration and other voice applications are simplified, resulting in lower capital and operating costs.

Join this session to hear Stephen Beamish, VP of Business Development, Mitel, interview Parag Patel, VP of Alliances, VMware on his views on the business benefits of virtualization, and why over 97% of the Fortune 1000 businesses are virtualizing today and why so many more will look to virtualize their voice applications today and tomorrow.

In this webinar we will answer the questions:

• What is virtualization?
• What are the benefits of running voice applications in a virtualized data center?
• Why hasn't virtualization of voice applications been available before now?
• How will this technology disruption improve business efficiencies and improve business bottom lines?
• What does the future hold for virtualization of unified communications voice applications?

Register now!